Regina Spektor - A Lesson in How Fleeting Preservation Is lyrics

Too much time spent trying to crawl into a hole Trying to crawl out of that hole I followed a path of a piece of a bread, traveling From one little sparrow's beak To another little sparrow's beak He picked it up, threw it and then dropped it, then This other one picked it up and threw it and again Then they broke it into pieces Ate it up and forgot that it ever existed They were still hungry, I bet They were still hungry at the end I was inside my office at the time And I got real scared Thought I saw two snakes slithering Then I remembered: Snakes don't live in carpeted areas Too much time spent And I'm spent There is an old meatball wrapped inside of tinfoil Lying on the bottom shelf of our fridge A lesson in how fleeting preservation is