They Might Be Giants - Or So I Have Read lyrics

Animals can smell your dreams
Or so I have read
That explains the constant sniffing
Under your bed or so I have read
It says it right here and did you know
That mixing paint with milk
Will make it clear?

Barber poles are found in the wild
And caught in a cage
If you count the stripes
You can determine their age
Or so says the sage that authored this page
Who owns a self-consuming timepiece
Called the chronophage

Everything you hear is a fact
And the opposite is also correct
If you swallowed up the planet
You would be a wiser man, it
Would be inside your head so I have read

You may not believe this
But it has been shown
The reason clouds are white
Is that they're made out of bone
And when I found out i slapped my own face
For now I know why skeletons
Are up in outer space

Someday in the distant future so I have read
Microscopic astronauts
Will land on your head
There's so much to know
Can't put this book down
A mime is the hybrid offspring
Of a human and a clown

Everything you hear is a fact
And the opposite is also correct
If you swallowed up the planet
You would be a wiser man
It would be inside your head
Or so I have read