Shall we agree that just this once
I´m gonna change my life
Until it´s just as tiny or
Important as you like?

And in time we won´t even recall that we spoke
Words that turned out to be as big as smoke
As smoke disappears in the air
There´s always something that´s smoldering somewhere

I know it don´t make a difference to you
But oh, it sure made a difference to me
You´ll see me off in the distance, I hope
At the other end
At the other end of the telescope

The promise of indulgence in
My confidential voice
Approached immortal danger but
You´ll never know how close, then down the hall
I overheard such a heavenly choir

They interrupted my evil designs
One day you´re up in the clouds
The next thing you´re down with the Sweet Adelines

I know it don´t make a difference to you
But oh, it sure made a difference to me
You´ll see me off in the distance, I hope
At the other end
At the other end of the telescope

Lie down baby now don´t say a word
There there, baby, your vision is blurred
Your head is so sore from all of that thinking
I don´t want to hurt you now but I think you´re shrinking

You´re half-naked ambition and
You´re half out of your wits
Or several tiny fractions that
This portrait still omits
And it´s so hard to pick the receiver up when I call
I never noticed you could be so small
The answer was under your nose
But the question never arose

I know it don´t make a difference to you
But oh, it sure made a difference to me
´Cause late in the evening as I sit here moping
With a bamboo needle on a shellac of Chopin
And the cast-iron heart that you failed to tear open

At the other end
At the other end of the telescope