Oedipus

Lyrics

[Verse 1] I'm the king's thirty-second son Born to him a thirty-second time Born to him with my hair still on Born to him with two eyebrows on And that's all I was wearing When I woke up staring at the world [Verse 2] My mom had been a rather crazy queen But not at all like a sex machine She liked to keep her body clean, clean Thought the world to be quite obscene But she'd retire to her chambers And we remain quite strangers [Refrain] And to see me made her awful sad And to touch me made her awful sad And to see me made her awful And to touch me made her awful [Verse 3] I'm the king's thirty-second son And all it took was thirty-second's time But a spoiled little prince I was not Had a chamber maid and a chamber pot And there's thirty-one others just like me There's thirty-one others I can be [Verse 4] Sometimes I'd stand by the royal walls The sky'd be so big that it broke my soul And I stood on my toes to catch a glimpse Of my mother's eyes and my mother's skin But she'd retire to her chambers And we remain quite strangers [Refrain] And to see me made her awful sad And to touch me made her awful sad And to see me made her awful And to touch me made her awful [Chorus] And then one morning, I woke up And I thought, "Oedipus, Oedipus, Oedipus, Oedipus" Then one morning, and I woke up And I thought, "Rex, Rex, Rex" Then one morning, I woke up And I thought, "Oedipus, Oedipus, Oedipus, Oedipus" [Post-Chorus] 'Cause thirty-two is still a goddamn number Thirty-two still counts Gonna make it count, gonna make it count Gonna, oh, oh Thirty-two is still a goddamn number Thirty-two still counts Gonna make it count, gonna make it count Gonna, oh, oh, oh [Bridge] Long live the king Long live the king Long live the king Long live the king Long live the king Long live the king Long live the king Long live the [Verse 5] I'm the king's thirty-second son There's thirty-one others just like me There's thirty-one others on the way There's thirty-one others after that [Verse 6] Sometimes I stand by the royal gate People screaming love and hate And they scream, and they scream And they scream, and they scream Long live the king, long live the queen [Refrain] And to see me made her awful sad And to touch me made her awful sad And to see me made her awful And to touch me made her awful, oh, oh [Chorus] And then one morning, I woke up And I thought, "Oedipus, Oedipus, Oedipus, Oedipus" Then one morning, and I woke up And I thought, "Rex, Rex, Rex" Then one morning, I woke up And I thought, "Oedipus, Oedipus, Oedipus, Oedipus" [Post-Chorus] 'Cause thirty-two is still a goddamn number Thirty-two still counts Gonna make it count, gonna make it count Gonna, uh, uh, uh Thirty-two is still a goddamn number Thirty-two is still a goddamn number Thirty-two is still a goddamn number Thirty-two is still a goddamn number Thirty-two, thirty-two Thirty-two, thirty-two Thirty-two, thirty-two Thirty-two, thirty-two [Outro] Long live the king Long live the king Long live the king Long live the king Long live the king Long live the king Long live the king Long live the king