when it gets hard and i cannot cope reel myself out on a long thin rope floating away in the slightest breeze to a wild blue flight of fantasy my feet leave this earth so easily just turn around say goodbye to me when the smallest things start going wrong there i am going going gone oh no here i go hold me down i m a balloon and i ll fly away if you don t hold me down i m a balloon and i wanna stay the hand i need on my string is you quiet and steady and ready to pull me to the earth when i m losing touch with myself and what i love so much oh no here i go hold me down i m a balloon and i ll fly away if you don t hold me down i m a balloon and i ll never stay here on the ground i m a balloon and i ll fly away so please hold me down down here with you cuz i wanna stay