Momus - Pillycock lyrics

Lightning never strikes twice unless it
Strikes a second time
No-one dies in perfect health unless
They die just fine
Nothing will come of nothing, they say
Until something does emerge
And nothing is better than nothing, they say
So let that nothing splurge

Who can treat a woman right who
Hasn't first done her rough
Who can know what love is worth
Until they lose that love
You can cross the same river twice
If you come to it again
Nothing says you take life seriously like
Playing it like a game

I hang out with Schrodinger
Whose cat is and isn't there
He's as full as a ball of fluff
As empty as thin air
He's a living not-living paradox
He tells me with a grin
That I may say both is and isn't
Very him and very not him

Pillycock sat on Pillycock's hill
But that makes little sense
How can Pillycocks really be hills
While also being men?
The foul fiend Flibbertigibbet sings in
The voice of the nightingale
And Nero is a fly-fisher at
The lake of Dunkerfaille