The Lizard

Robyn Hitchcock · I Wanna Go Backwards [2007]

You wear the lizard's shoes

And afterwards you get confused

You wear the lizard's coat

And afterwards you fail to float

You take the lizard's path

But look who's lying in the bath

You wear the lizard's skin

No man can be a god and win at all

Ah



You take the lizard's mask

But look who's lying in the cask

And when the clocks have stopped

You'll find out what the lizard dropped

You know the lizard's won

But you can't work out how it's done

The lizard is your friend

And will be 'til the very end of time



You lie beneath the stars

The lizard knows how high they are

The stars are out of reach

The lizard lingers on a beach

The stars are out of date

The lizard had them on a plate

You vomit in the shed

The lizard got there first he's dead

No



It's the bat

Yeah

Oh

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