Robyn Hitchcock - Fiend Before the Shrine lyrics

I stumbled with a friend of mine To see a fiend before the shrine With pointed eyes and furry breath He summoned men of faith to d**h Within a cloister full of ferns An ivy twining round the urns That brimmed with duckweed and with snails The fiend, his mouth was full of nails "Oh, come and see my swarming shrine!" His little pointed eyes did shine "For God is life and life is lust And will be after you are dust!" The shrine, it writhed with giblets and with hairs And little tongues in flickering pairs And throats that grew from pads of cheese And then came out behind the knees A pumpkin smiled and from its beak A pair of scaly legs did peek With squirming elvers for its hair And from that midst an eye did stare It winked as me as if to say "You've seen enough, now go away!" I sing of life, I sing of d**h Until I might run out of breath I stumbled with a friend of mine To see a fiend before a shrine With pointed eyes and septic ears I knew this fiend did last for years