Buds Won't Bud

When your world goes to pieces overnight

Something's wrong, very wrong

When you don't know your left shoe from your right

Something's wrong, very wrong

When the clock sips tea

And your head strikes three

And you feel you're in a crazy dream

Something's wrong with this entire scheme

Buds won't bud

Breeze won't breeze

And dew won't dew

One and one ain't even two

When the love you love won't love you

Buds won't bud

Chicks won't chick

And nicks won't nick

Blue is white and white is black

When the love you love won't love back

On account there's no accounting

When you can't bring your dream about

All your troubles keep on mounting

And the world is just a big blackout

'Cause buds won't bud

Breeze won't breeze

And dew won't dew

One and one is thirty-two

When the love you love won't love you

Buds won't bud

Breeze won't breeze

And crow won't crow

Eenie meenie's mine is moe

When the love you love says heigh ho

Buds won't bud

Notes won't note

And knots won't knot

T's won't cross and I's won't dot

When the hope you hope goes to pot

On account there's no accounting

Ever since you bowed out

All my moods won't mood

And my food won't food

And my ties won't tie

And my tears won't dry

And to make things worse

My heart is beating in reverse

'Cause buds won't bud

And breeze won't breeze

And dew won't dew

C-O-D is IOU

When the dream you dream

And the scheme you scheme

When the dream you dream won't come true