Empty Your Hands

16 balloons against the blue
 They're red, they're red like a dream come true
 Sure it was enough to give them to you
 To watch you let them go, let them go
 Empty your hands
 Of overheard conversations
 Empty your hands
 Static from the big bang
 And dinosaur radio stations
 Empty your hands
 Genocides in foreign nations
 Empty your hands and look up
 His eyes are wide and beautiful,
 My own feel dull and old
 They can't recall some buoyancy,
 They've had too much to hold, let them go
 Floating past a daytime moon
 Transparent as a shell
 Rubies in a well, sixteen apples on a tree
 We never would have seen
 If his fingers weren't so free
 Our baby learned to run today
 In circles on the grass
 His joyful face it radiates
 These moments go so fast, let them go