| Passing through the corridor I came upon an aging knight
|
| Who leaned against the wall in gnarly armor
|
| He was on his way to see the king
|
| Wilson, Wilson, Wilson
|
| He led me through the streets of Prussia talking
|
| As he tried to crush a bug
|
| That scurried underneath his boot heel
|
| He said there was a place where we should go
|
| So he lead me through the forest to the edge of a lagoon by which
|
| We wandered 'til we reached a bubbly spring
|
| The knight grew very quiet as we stood there
|
| Then he lifted up his visor and he turned to me and he began to sing
|
| He said, «I come from the land of darkness»
|
| I said, «I come from the land of doom»
|
| He said, «I come from the land of Gamehendge
|
| From the land of the big baboon
|
| But I’m never, never going back there
|
| And I couldn’t if I tried
|
| 'Cause I come from the land of lizards
|
| And the lizards they have died
|
| And the lizards they have died
|
| And the lizards they have died
|
| And the lizards they have"
|
| He told me that the lizards
|
| Were a race of people practically extinct
|
| From doing things smart people don’t do
|
| He said that he was once a lizard too
|
| His name was Rutherford the Brave
|
| And he was on a quest to save
|
| His people from the fate that lay before them
|
| Their clumsy end was perilously near
|
| The lizards would be saved, he said, if they could be enlightened
|
| By the writings of the Helping Friendly Book
|
| In all of Prussia only one existed
|
| And Wilson had declared that any person who possessed it was a crook
|
| He said, «I come from the land of darkness»
|
| I said, «I come from the land of doom»
|
| He said, «I come from the land of Gamehendge
|
| From the land of the big baboon
|
| But I’m never, never going back there
|
| And I couldn’t if I tried
|
| 'Cause I come from the land of lizards
|
| And the lizards they have died
|
| And the lizards they have died
|
| And the lizards they have died
|
| And the lizards they have"
|
| The Helping Friendly Book, it seemed
|
| Possessed the ancient secrets
|
| Of eternal joy and never-ending splendor
|
| The trick was to surrender to the flow
|
| We walked along beneath the moon
|
| He lead us through the bush 'till soon
|
| We saw before our eyes a raging river
|
| He said that we could swim it if we tried
|
| And saying this the knight dove in forgetting that his suit of arms
|
| Would surely weigh him down and so he sunk
|
| And as his body disappeared before me
|
| I bowed my head in silence
|
| And remembered all the thoughts that he had thunk
|
| He said, «I come from the land of darkness»
|
| I said, «I come from the land of doom»
|
| He said, «I come from the land of Gamehendge
|
| From the land of the big baboon
|
| But I’m never, never going back there
|
| And I couldn’t if I tried
|
| 'Cause I come from the land of lizards
|
| And the lizards they have" |