Everything Everything - No Reptiles lyrics

Slip from the trees to the dirt to the menace
To the wild to the car, under snow
Cut to ribbons like a coral to your shin
Like a manacle to swing
Fresh from the breast
Now a river running fat
To the manor born a rat
To the manor born a flea
To a flood to a drain, now a rubber
Now a chain

I was in the war you were in the war

Plump from the sugar-water pump
With the city at your back to
The cannon with a match
From a milk into a mass grave
Never mind that, I can take that
Bones in a bowl like a toad-in-the-hole
Take the shape of the mould
Like a mummy on a pole
And a merry little head
Bob around when you're dead

I was on my knees you were on your knees

And no reptiles
Just soft boiled eggs in shirts and ties
Waiting for the flashing green man
Quivering and wobbling just like all
The eggs you know

I’m going to kill a stranger
So don’t you be a stranger

Oh, baby, it’s alright
It’s alright to feel like a
Fat child in a pushchair old enough to run
Old enough to fire a gun
Oh, baby, it’s alright
It’s alright to feel like a
Fat child in a pushchair old enough to run
Old enough to fire a gun
Oh, baby, it’s alright
It’s alright to feel like a
Fat child in a pushchair old enough to run
Old enough to fire a gun
Just give me this one night
Just one night to feel like I
Might be on the right path
The path that takes me home
Wise enough to know myself
Just give me this one night
Just one night to feel like I
Might be on the right path (Home)
Old enough to fire a gun
Just give me this one night
Just one night to feel like I
Might be on the right path
The path that takes me home
Wise enough to know myself
Just give me this one night
Just one night to feel