Tulip - Augie March

Are you lit from the inside, is that why your teeth are bright?

You smile as the sun sets on the window, and the car fills up with light

Make a smile tulip, don’t think of me as something that’s passed

I am not written in the book, but I intend to last…

And as the sun comes up you know it’s really going down

You only framed it incorrectly, now you cannot turn it round

If there’s enough of us here left, then we’ll drive it into town

And when we pass the field of tulips, then I’ll put the knuckle down…

Don’t frown tulip

Make a smile

Don’t frown tulip

You know it’s all worthwhile…

There were lions by the roadside, I was driving with my Father

Through a dream of French forests, and all was warmth and solace

And all said He is with us, but always sad and serious

Standing outside in the garden, pained and peerless…

Don’t frown tulip

Make a smile

Don’t frown tulip

You know it’s all worthwhile…

Make a smile at the end of your tether

This was never gonna last forever…

The woods all were peopled with daughters and sons

The teeming uncounted and unchosen ones

Who don’t dance anymore, they just move around in bubbles

And nobody notices nobody’s troubles

Nobody notices nobody’s troubles…

Don’t frown tulip

Make a smile

Don’t frown tulip

You know it’s all worthwhile…

Make a smile at the end of your tether

This was never gonna last forever

Don’t frown tulip, don’t frown tulip…