She was the coldest girl you ever saw here
A disgusted face beneath a sea of freckles that bloom from April
I swear you saw her go by and wander through Madrid
He was always bouncing around and still drowned
In the puddles of Plaza Dos de Mayo while March drizzled
I swear I didn't see him coming
And run from this powder keg
Both looking back
They bumped into each other in the maybe
She wasn't so bad, nor he that dumb
Just the cactus woman and the balloon man
And sometimes I don't get it when you call me love
If I want, if I have, if you give or I give back
This is just a bad example, a loose recreation
When two opposite poles feel more than just attraction
And sometimes fate is so ironic
That people who wouldn't stick even with glue smash the cliché
A Platonic love, sorry, Aristotelian
Eating at the same table as this comic duo
He already warned her about his unstable streak
Of being first to deflate and tie down his strings
She answered that if he ever ran out of air
He should try the crazies; they don't pin you down
She replied she was impregnable
Hurting anyone who tried to get close
He told her there's nothing to worry about
Since he didn't want to be near but inside, rooted
If she was the thorn, no, no
He'd yank it out, no, no
And maybe he'd be the filled balloon that yanks her feet from the pot
Everybody, friends of all kinds, tried to warn them
That she wasn't so bad, nor he that dumb
Just the cactus woman and the balloon man
And sometimes I don't get it when you call me love
If I want, if I have, if you give or I give back
This is just a bad example, a loose recreation
When two opposite poles feel more than just attraction
They go, out of sight, in the middle of the sway
They go, unseen, they left alone
They go, unseen, outside the hurricane
There they go, she and he
They go, unseen, that train already left
They go, unseen, they left alone
I mean the cactus woman and the balloon man
They go, out of sight, in the middle of the sway
They go, unseen, they left alone
They go, unseen, outside the hurricane
There they go, she and he
They go, unseen, that train already left
They go, unseen, they left alone
I mean the cactus woman and the balloon man