Bottle Rockets

I carry out the chairs And find the colored lights in the garden shed There are boxes on the stairs Full of rockets and dragon eggs And are you scared to sleep out on the grass by the pool? Where the spirits move in the water That you'll wake up and it's already dark And you're suddenly much older You hear the kids in the yard Coming back from the neighbours You wonder if one day They will become strangers And the fires rise up from their little hands And transform in the sky into showers of light I'll find your hummingbird cake and the blue raspberry jam And we'll fry our brains on a sugar-high And tie your feet, or you'll shoot off in the night With the violet balloons And the mighty wolf blows the candles out And howls to the moon