I think I'm going to China today.
Is there anyplace finer to stay?
I think I'm going crazy these days.
Or is it I'm just lazy in my ways?

Sometimes it's so hard to define what life is for.
I've begun to wonder if it's worth the time anymore.

I think I'll visit Paris awhile.
It will give me time to hide my careless smile.
I think I've lost my mind somewhere.
Would you be kind enough to care?

Sometimes it's so easy for me to lose my mind.
I've begun to wonder if my cue's ahead of its time.

(Repeat first verse)

    The music is well matched to the words.  It starts out very upbeat although with a sense of frenzy and on more than one occasion, as the words suggest a more depressed state of mind, the music winds down in a spiraling diminuendo and ritard on a chromatic downward scale to once more pick up the original tune.  The section before the last verse is a mournful solo in the clarinet before picking up the melody one final time.

    Later on in life (about 1993) I decided to take the piece and arrange it for flute choir.  I set it for piccolo, 3 C flutes, alto flute and bass flute.  The melody is almost always in flute 1 and the countermelody is in the piccolo.  This can make for a dangerous balance if the pic player is not careful.  I recommend not doubling that part and at least doubling the flute 1 part.  The instrumental solo I mentioned earlier is in the alto and bass flute parts and is actually quite lovely.  Care must be taken to keep the volume on the other voices low enough for it to shine through.