Animal X

There was a girl, call her Animal X

22, 24, 25 it’s hard to tell

It’s hard to tell

She comes from the city where there is light and air

Where you can watch television

Where you can go to the movies

And read books just for the joy of it

She went out walking

She’s drawn along by a kind of humming, a kind of prayer

She winds up down on the waterfront, out on the boom docks

Out on the boom docks

Yeah and at the gates she meets a boy

Animal Y, 22, 24, it’s hard to tell

It’s hard to tell, I mean I never really can tell

But he wasn’t her type

He was a different kind, but they were built for each other

Bit by bit, and piece by piece they were built for each other

By some cosmic hand just for the joy of it

Down in the boom docs

Down in the waterfront

And he calls out something in a language she doesn’t understand

And he calls out something in a language she doesn’t understand

And she put her hand on his stomach just for the joy of it

But his stomach was where his head was

And she put her hand on his head just for the joy of it

But his head was where his feet were

And she put her hand on his heart,

Right there on his heart, just for the joy of it

But his heart was lying down on the road

And Animal X says to Animal Y:

They can build their gods way up high

They can build their gods, but they don’t own the sky

Says animal X to animal Y

They can build their gods way uṗ high

And I’ll lay right down beside you

Be a bride of Frankenstein

He was a head with no heart

He was an arm with no hand

He was a leg with no feet

He was a head with no heart

She was a head with no heart

She was an arm with no hand

She was a leg with no feet

She was a head with no heart

Yeah, 501s, 511s, 603s it’s hard to tell

It’s hard to tell

Yeah but she sure looked good going down the waterfront

Yeah but she sure looked good going down the wood docks