Adrian Belew Neurotica Lyrics

Neurotica Lyrics

"Good morning, it`s 3 a.m. in this great roaring city full of garbage
eaters ravaging parking spots beneath my Plaza window...I see cheetah in their
tight skins and tired heels, all-night hippo in the diner, crossing the street,
swarthy herds of young impala, flambastic gibbon, even a struggling monza, and
over there that brilliant head ornament on that japanese macaque...but look
closely at the hammerhead hand in hand with the mandrill; it`s a sight you`re
unlikely to see anywhere else on the planet"
"The stench and the noise, yes, yes...the howlers` resonating repertoire
is not too bad when mixed with the more musical twern of the tropical warbler,
but the impatient taxi blare, the squawking elderly ibis, and the glass-eye
snapper hawking papers I can certainly live without...also be cautious of the
poisonous boomslang laughter, social droppings of the fruit bat and purple
queen fish...and who`s that babbler conversing with a magazine
stand?...evidently he`s getting a good reply..."
Arrive in Neurotica
through neon heat disease
I swear at the swarming herds
I sweat the foul terrain
I rove the moving scenery
I have no fin, no wing, no stinger,
no claw, no camouflage
I have no more to say 
"Say, isn`t that an elephant fish on the corner over there? Look at that
bush baby, mud puppy, noolbenger, rhinoderma, marmoset, spring peeper,
shingleback skink, siren, skate, starling, sun-gazer, spoonbill,
and suckers, they seem to be everywhere!
well, it`s a live revue...random animal parts, now playing nightly right here
in Neurotica...so long!"