Lyrics

They met on an online dating site
He liked her spunk.
She was here for another month or so
From the Land of the Rising Sun.
Her English was a little patchy
But she got his jokes
Which was more than he could say
‘Bout a lot of folks.

It’s a small world,
It’s a shrinking globe
And it only takes a couple of days
to circle ‘round.

She played his video games and
He watched her animes.
They mixed their flavours on the plate
And spices on the rack
It was clear from the beginning
That she was going home
But by the time she left they knew
That she was coming back.

It’s a small world,
It’s a shrinking globe
It only takes a couple of days to circle ‘round.

Jet planes stitched the continents
On the arcs of their great circles
Like sunlight on a spider silk
Their silver bellies full of dreams
And a virus on their wings.

Now she’s stranded in Japan
The planes are run aground
And so they wait and bide their time
They wait and bide their time.
At dusk and dawn they cross each other
On a cell phone screen
Like moon and sun, too pale, too brief
And nothing’s been invented yet
With electronic arms.

It’s a small world
It’s a shrinking globe
And it only takes a couple of days
To circle ‘round.
How they wish it would take a just couple of days to circle round.