Robyn Hitchcock - Victorian Squid lyrics

Victorian squid is a delight
For all the family because
It's greasy and hot when you've had lots
Then you'll want more

There's old HG wells lying in bed
With his new housekeeper with
Hot squid by their side glowing with pride
Flushed with exhaustion victorian lungs
Victorian skin victorian tongues
Victorian sin victorian parks
Victorian moans victorians darkness

Victorian squid down on the beach
Is an embarrassment to respectable girls
Walking with pearls and their fiances

"Oh, Edward my love is that a squid?"
"Yes, I fear so, my pet
But, pray, leave it alone let us go home
And take some cocoa"

Victorian arms victorian legs
Victorian charms victorian eggs
Victorian boys victorian girls
Victorian darkness every night our
Voices meet in darkness
Clicking feet on hollow streets the
Fanlight falls a- cross the city
Onto me and mistress Kitty
Pray that someone breaches her be-
Tween the walnut and the fur to
Where she keeps her real secret
Hid she's a Victorian squid