A long long time before you were even here Before your ancestors landed on these shores The whole world suffocated on something in the air But it overtook them so slowly they kept on making more There were green things and brown things growing endlessly Spilling out their toxins into air and into sea Every word I'm telling you is true So please believe me when I say that all of this created you You can't divide everything without leaving a remainder You can't boil cabbage without splitting a few heads There's just so much that you can wrap around your brain, dear So few hours we aren't asleep inside our beds If you're not part of the solution, you're the precipitate Even if you swear to change, the hour's growing late Every word I'm telling you is true So please believe me when I say that this applies you In ancient Greece they told a tale of a man with a golden fleece He had a wife and kids but decided to trade them in The first wife she wept and wailed and couldn't find no peace For revenge she took her kids aside and did them in The people speak in horror of this woman going mad But deep inside each one of us is a Medea who's been had Every word I'm telling you is true So believe me when I say that this could happen to you