They Might Be Giants - I Love You for Psychological Reasons lyrics

Lately I’ve taken to
Vacantly making repetitive
Movements mistakenly seen as improvements
Nearing perfection but wisely
Electing to shun
My reflection preferring instead
Shoe inspection

Cheese and chalk do not talk but their
Eyes synchronize with a secret rhythm
Which is a way one could say that
I love you for psychological reasons

Mumbling failure in jail my extremities
Flail and I wail though
My arms and my legs to the chair are nailed
Under the table, unwilling, unable
The tortures medieval
The dream is a fable with feeble wings

Why does the mouse share the
House with the louse
They won’t say but they feel their feelings
Doesn’t subtract from the fact that I
Love you for psychological reasons (ahh)

I’m ashamed to admit I’m afraid
Of assuming the blame
For my lame abnegation of braveness and fame
Brain in a jar in a car
In reverse I’m rehearsing the way
I’ll replay how to say how
To be where you are

Flammable undiagrammable sentiments pass
Between animal beings
Hard to explain but it’s plain that
I love you for psychological reasons (ahh)

Why does the mouse share the
House with the louse
They won’t say but they feel their feelings
Doesn’t subtract from the fact that I
Love you for psychological reasons (ahh)

Reasons (ahh) i can’t (ahh)
Really go into now reasons (ahh)
We should (ahh) probably (ahh)
Not get into right now