Petrified

[Verse 1] Not so many thousand years before These old rocks were the bones of the haplocanthosaur [?] tall as a house I might have been as gentle as a mouse [Refrain] Old rocks, bare bones Old rocks, bare bones [Verse 2] The bones of a flying animal now called the pterosaur Have been found a hundred miles from the shore [Refrain] Old rocks, bare bones Old rocks, bare bones [Bridge] Bare bones are petrified and later they are classified A skeleton may indicate but imagination animates The mind's eye does need to see The fluid grace and subtlety Animals fitted perfectly to a world not like the one we see Here's the sort of bird that we don't see In some of the books it's not treated quite respectfully [Refrain] Old rocks, bare bones Old rocks, bare bones [Bridge] Bare bones are petrified and later they are classified A skeleton may indicate but imagination animates The mind's eye does need to see The fluid grace and subtlety Animals fitted perfectly to a world not like the one we see