Little Boxes (with apologies to Malvina Reynolds)

Little boxes in the depots

Little boxes made of ticky-tacky

Little boxes in the depots,

Little boxes all the same.

There's a red one, and a green one,

And a blue one, and an orange one,

And they're all made out of ticky-tacky

And they all look just the same.

And the people move their houses

And they build things of great complexity

And they all get put in boxes,

Little boxes all the same.

And there's half-heights, and there's open tops,

And there's reefers, and collapsibles,

And they're all made out of ticky-tacky

And they all look just the same.

And they move them in the terminals

And they move them on the autobahns,

And they move them in the vessel cells

And they move them on the trains.

And they sometime suffer damages

And are sent off to the refurbishers,

And they come back as little boxes,

Little boxes all the same.

Little boxes in the depots,

Little boxes made of ticky-tacky

Little boxes in the depots,

Little boxes all the same.

There's a red one, and a green one,

And a blue one, and an orange one,

And they're all made out of ticky-tacky

And they all look just the same.