China's Little Bubble

Someone told me you were sick
with a tiny pin prick
in China's little bubble
I didn't know then but I know now.

I heard your baby learned to smile
Did it stretch for miles?
It took awhile but now I know
in China's little bubble.

My mother looks like the Franken bride
now the cat's too scared to come inside,
my best friend decided to get her masters
just so she could get her PHD faster,
apparently no one can get a job
might as well join the mob
all this, enough to make me laugh or sob
in China's little bubble.

I don't take sleeping pills anymore
unlike what I did every night before
I guess isolation helps me slumber
in China's little bubble

I have someone in love with me
I teach students of one hundred and sixty
and sometimes I watch the BBC
in China's little bubble

I ride my bike and wait for spring
still feeling winter's bitter sting,
i can't drink whiskey like i could
(secretly, I think this is good),
I work a job but I don't work hard,
I rarely get to see the stars
I still haven't mailed one single postcard
from China's little bubble.

Do you think maybe
you could come inside
just long enough to
watch me hide
i don't know when and
i don't know why i
decided to be so flighty

Maybe I was born like this
always feeling conformed by this
thought that life will stop if I
decide to stop moving.
Now China's bubble is quickly caving
and I see myself misbehaving
like I always do when I'm ready to burst
out into the open air.

Someone told me you were sick
like a large pin prick in my heart
bursting China's little bubble
I didn't know then but I do know now