The Moss

[Verse 1]

Legend has it that the moss grows on

The north side of the trees

Legend has it when the rain comes down

All the worms come up to breathe

Legend has it when the sunbeams come

All the plants, they eat them with their leaves

Legend has it that the world spins round

On an axis of twenty-three degrees

[Chorus]

But have you heard the story of the rabbit in the moon?

Or the cow that hopped the planets whilе straddling a spoon

Or she, who leapt up mountains while whistling up a tunе

And swapped her songs with swallows while riding on a broom

Well, we can all learn things, both many and a-few

From that old hunched-up woman who lived inside a shoe

Or the girl that sang by day and by night she ate tear soup

Or the man who drank too much and he got the brewers' droop

[Bridge]

Come listen, all ye fair maids, to how the moral goes

Nobody knew and nobody knows

How the Pobble was robbed of his twice five toes

Or how the Dong came to own a luminous nose

Or how the Jumblies went to sea in a sieve that they rowed

And came to shore by the Chankly Bore where the Bong-trees grow

Where the Jabberwocky's small green tentacles do flow

And the Quangle Wangle plays in the rain and the snow

[Chorus]

But have you heard the story of the rabbit in the moon?

Or the cow that hopped the planets while straddling a spoon

Or she, who leapt up mountains while whistling up a tune

And swapped her songs with swallows while riding on a broom

Well, we can all learn things, both many and a-few

From that old hunched-up woman who lived inside a shoe

Or the girl that sang by day and by night she ate tear soup

Or the man who drank too much and he got the brewers' droop

But everything you see isn't everything that is

Every thing you think to be, every thought you can't dismiss

The lives we try to lead and the time we try to give

Well it's all a fallacy we continue to relive

And every thing will live, just as every thing will die

Every foe that you forgive, every friend that you deny

Every single first hello and every single last goodbye

Every smile that you show, every tear that you hide

[Verse 2]

Well, legend says that one and one is two

And that one and two is three

Well, legend has it that the first flight flew

Back in nineteen-zero-three

Well, legend has it that we're all just doomed

And we've ruined our society

Well, legend has it that we dug our tomb

Which we'll lie in for all eternity

[Chorus]

But have you heard the story of the rabbit in the moon?

Or the cow that hopped the planets while straddling a spoon

Or she, who leapt up mountains while whistling up a tune

And swapped her songs with swallows while riding on a broom

Well, we can all learn things, both many and a-few

From that old hunched-up woman who lived inside a shoe

Or the girl that sang by day and by night she ate tear soup

Or the man who drank too much and he got the brewers' droop

But everything you see isn't everything that is

Every thing you think to be, every thought you can't dismiss

The lives we try to lead and the time we try to give

Well, it's all a fallacy we continue to relive

And every thing will live, just as every thing will die

Every foe that you forgive, every friend that you deny

Every single first hello and every single last goodbye

Every smile that you show, every tear that you hide

[Verse 3]

Well, legend has it that the moss grows on

The north side of the trees

Well, legend has it that the moss that grows

Will outlive both you and me

Well, legend has it that the world once knew

A whole palette of lovely blues and greens

Well, legend has it that our corpses lie

A foundation of insincerity