Brainiac - Petrified lyrics

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

Old rocks, bare bones old rocks, bare bones

The bones of a flying animal
Now called the pterosaur
Have been found a hundred
Miles from the shore

Old rocks, bare bones old rocks, bare bones

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

Old rocks, bare bones old rocks, bare bones

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