Lyrics

Worm was wood Snail was an ocelot The deer in the headlights Was a marigold in bloom Lily was light And a teardrop was a grain of sand You were counting sweaters While sheep were howling at the moon Earth was flat And sugar fly was sewer-rat The leaves that were blowing Were still growing when we left Bird was bug And billy was a beetle too I was in love with you How quickly we forget We forget the clothes we wear Were only fur and feathers We held the world together without proof We forget the lies we tell were yet to be invented And we lived with only instinct and the truth Snake was stick And branches were open arms The tide came in And it covered up our bed Worm was wood This used to be a neighbourhood You made a promise How quickly we forget How quickly we forget