Momus - The Shape of a Pear lyrics

I'm not the flighty gecko you chased into the crack in the stump Of the sycamore tree Ronald said adjusting was the last thing I should do when I'm drunk Because the world's the disease The head splits from the body The decay begins to face its own decay It's like the tail that wags the dog Cinnamon's the smell of someone who would rather be alive A reciprocal girl A person who is stubbornly releasing all the drones in the hive It's a reciprocal world When the head splits from the body The decay begins to face its own decay It's like the quack that leads the duck And Ronald tells me madness is the only sane response to the machine To things as they are I see the exhibitionist believes it only happens in a dream Or in the back of a car And I was going round and round in the Columbia garage with coloured lights flashing But only in my head The Russian girl was Wednesday I think she ran away but that's okay I've still got her underwear And I'm becoming all the characters I used to sing about but they Need the air And it's the journey that exhausts you, not burying your headache in the fire In an obstacle world And Ronald says he's kissed the lips of every live electrical wire On the Golbourne Road The head splits from the body The decay begins to face its own decay It's just the fish you've got to fry To disappear is easy when inside you feel you're cut into three In the shape of a pear I always wonder how I carry on when things are so unreal But Ronald says By being everywhere The head splits from the body The decay begins to face its own decay It's just the pig you've got to fly