Neurotica

[Verse 1]

Good morning, it's 3 a.m. in this great, roaring city

Full of garbage eaters ravaging parking spots

Beneath my plaza window

I see cheetah in their tight skins and tired heels

All-night hippo in the diner crossing the street

Swarthy herds of young impala

Flambastic gibbon, even a struggling monza

And over there that brilliant head ornament

On that Japanese macaque

But look closely at the hammerhead

Hand in hand with the mandrill

It's a sight you're unlikely to see

Anywhere else on the planet

[Verse 2]

The stench and the noise, yes, yes

The howler's resonating repertoire is not too bad

When mixed with the more musical twern of the tropical warbler

But the impatient taxi blare, the squawking elderly ibis

And the glass-eye snapper hawking papers

I can certainly live without

Also be cautious of the poisonous boomslang laughter

Social droppings of the fruit bat and purple queen fish

And who's that babbler conversing with a magazine stand?

Evidently, he's getting a good reply

[Chorus]

Arrive in Neurotica

Through neon heat disease

I swear at the swarming herds

I sweat the foul terrain

I rove the moving scenery

[Chorus]

Arrive in Neurotica

Through neon heat disease

I swear at the swarming herds

I sweat the foul terrain

I rove the moving scenery

[Bridge]

I have no fin, no wing, no stinger

No claw, no camouflage, I have no more to say

[Verse 3]

Say, isn't that an elephant fish on the corner over there?

Look at that bush baby, mud puppy

Noolbenger, rhinoderma, marmoset

Spring peeper, shingleback skink, siren skate

Starling star-gazer spoonbill and suckers

They seem to be everywhere, well it's a live revue

Random animal parts, now playing nightly

Right here in Neurotica, so long