Momus - Nikki Danjo lyrics

Midnight at the theatre, news is coming over
Of the murder of the prophet
The one we all believed in
Everybody’s scuttling
And everybody’s nervous
The man who makes the lightning has
Gone missing in the forest

And on the television comes
The evil Nikki Danjo
Who proclaims himself the regent even
Though he is a rat
He’s got forward-sweeping eyebrows
An awful fearless forehead
And the scroll that he is holding
Tells the future of the world

And all the while the spider
Comet hurtles towards Earth
A pink and white calamity with
An icy blue eye
An electric-coloured coma mane
A horrid ion tail
Danjo grins and grimaces like his
Head is on a spring

And now the night must lengthen
To a universal sealant
While the oil wells in the desert
Burn all the oil away
The ruin of a wooden ship
Suspended between stacks of rock
And Nikki Danjo lives in it
As if in the Ark on Ararat

The dinosaurs return to the earth
Dressed up as stenographers
Committing dactylography
They copulate like dogs
And the ground has got so hot now that
The only way to walk on it
Is on stilts built like
Chopsticks for tottering refugees
We reel injustice in on strings
Don’t believe in anything
Between the jagged chimneys floats the
Nightmare of a moon

It’s down to Ennosuke, the great kabuki actor
To save us from the regent and
Put the rat to death
A pterodactyl cackle is lingering behind you
Obey the spider comet, whatever it may say