Momus - Born To Be Adored lyrics

I was created in the fleshpots of Araby
My mother was the Emperor's secretary
My father, a notorious libertine
Escaped from Sodom and Gomorrah
The cities of the plain
You can read my family's rise
And fall in Gibbon
I was born to be adored by women

Well Seth begat Clem and then Clem begat Ruth
And then Ruth begat me and
All hell broke loose
The tribes all began to multiply and boom
And, looking at their kids
No-one knew from whom
The beautiful things kept springing
I was born to be adored by women

My hair is long, distinguished
Prematurely grey i've got a mouth like
Ernest Hemingway's ashtray
I've fathered 103 illegitimate kids
I've never met a mother I couldn't bed
I love children, spiders, snakes
And anything living
I was born to be adored by women

Some guys can erect garden furniture
That must be what God invented husbands for
But, if you need a milk chocolate
In the shape of a man if you need a chunk of
Marzipan the size of Taiwan
Look up the chimney
See what Santa's bringing
I was born to be adored by women

Well I know I'm always late
Since my watch got sold
But, I'm worth the wait, the weight in gold
After God made me, they broke the mould
And I've broken all the records
With that old song
Bold girls are so fond of singing
I was born to be adored by women

Well my favourite bird is the cuckoo, punk
My favourite beast the funky skunk
My favourite colour is the emerald green
Chuck the football king goes
When his beauty queen
Comes to me when she's chucked him in
I was born to be adored by women

What I don't know about love technique
You could scribble in biro on
The balls of your feet
I never wear underwear
I drive a dead beat Landrover
In my bare feet stark naked
There's always one more river to go swim in
I was born to be adored by women