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