Pink confetti, shotgun wedding
  Rocket secrets someone's shredding
  Nineteenth floor.
  Laundry ticket that exploded
  Joust with Quaker pamphlet goaded Into war.
  Ankle deep we heroes amble Ankle deep we wade
  Ankle deep through someone else's Ticker tape parade
  Softly, softly, softly Falls papersnow...
  Softly, softly, softly
  All of our works blow away...
  Petals fell on Petaluma
  Till receipt from Montezuma's Burger hut.
  Every day a billion dollars
  Fall as black and white blue-Collars
  Plough their rut.
  Softly, softly, softly
  Falls papersnow...
  Softly. softly, softly
  All of our works blow away...
  Ankle deep we heroes amble
  Ankle deep we wade
  Ankle deep through someone else's
  Ticker tape parade
  Jets folded from Wall Street Journal
  Shoot down cartons care of Colonel's
  Chicken ranch.
  Kleenex where the guy's been cryin'
  Goodbye note from girl who's flyin'
  To new branch.
  Softly, softly, so"
  Falls papersnow...
  Softly, softly, softly
  All of our works blow away...
  Letters that I'd meant to send you
  To torpedo and up-end you
  Sheet by sheet.
  Tore up all the beg and bitter
  Add them to the drift of litter
  On your street.
  Softly, softly, softly
  Fails papersnow...
  Softly, softly, softly
  All of our works blow away...
  Ankle deep we heroes amble
  Ankle deep we wade
  Ankle deep through someone else's
  Ticker tape parade