Set out on a laughless day

Like a troupe of clowns

Peekin' out of a show man's car

Through cabbage town...

You feel a cold wind blow

Through your open mind

The end is about to start

So you shut it hard...

As the weather girl predicts:

Conducting the clouds with her stick

The day will be clear'n'funny

- Before it rains...

Written in water

Yeah, it's bound to disappear

Written in water

Down the crater of your ear

As long as the flavor lasts

In c-h-e-w-i-n-g gum

As long as we float around

This golf ball sun...

The light to replace the day

Is ten shades of gray

A kiss removes the skin

Shows you where you've been

Under the ultra-violet ray

A rule every fool obeys

Hold up your name in fire

- Before it rains...

Written in water

Yeah, it's bound to disappear

Written in water

Written on a wave of fear..

Written in water

Yeah, it's bound to disappear

Down-the-velvet-crater-of-your-ee-aa-rrr

Yeah, written in water

It's bound to disappear

Written in water

Written on a wave of fear

Written in water

It's bound to disappear

Down the velvet crater of your ear

Iiiiiiiiiiiihhjairr!... Written in water