Noon siesta floating off the radio   May has come to rescue Central Park   Watch the kids revive the sounds of Mexico   It gives them a spark and something to breathe   The beauty of everything unseen      The figure of eight goes 'round   Leaves you alive where you started   It's good to be up when you're down   So what are you waiting for   If all of your past is now   The figure of eight, the figure of eight goes around      These are days you read about in magazines   These are times they used to call a book   Every option sitting here in front of me   Could give me a look, sweet on the vine   I take them back home and make them mine      The figure of eight goes 'round...      In a maze of broken dreams   It is all just what it seems   And a sweet, forgotten sound   Goes around      The figure of eight goes 'round...