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Origin & Inspiration

2 Sep 2011

 

This pastiché of Culture Club's Karma Chameleon was inspired by seeing the cheerful chirpy chappy on the photo below. Alas, I can't remember where it came from now - I think it was promoting a local craft fayre.

 

A reptilian sculpture's ode to O'Dowd

I have vision in my eyes three-sixtee

I can't listen to your lies coz I'm deaf

A reptile, with tail prehensile

A reptile, who also knows

how to change his pigmentation:

chromatophores, chromatophores!

Copper, Copper, Copper, Copper, Copper Chameleon

I'm not a toad

I'm not a to-oh-oh-oh-oad

Lovin' would be easy if your colours were like my dreams

Oxidized green, Oxidized gree-ee-ee-een!

Didn't hear your wicked words every day

As I said, I lack ears, so I'm deaf

And my love is oviparous

When I nest, I dig a hole

When you go, you're gone forever

You string along a single mom

Copper, Copper, Copper, Copper, Copper Chameleon

I'm not a toad

I'm not a to-oh-oh-oh-oad

Lovin' would be easy if your colours were like my dreams

Oxidized green, Oxidized gree-ee-ee-een!

Every day is like survival

you're my lover, not my wife's hole

Every day is like survival

you're my lover, not my wife's hole

 

A reptile, with feet didactyl

A reptile, who also knows

how to live aboreal:

up in the trees, up in the tree-ee-ee-ees!

 

Copper, Copper, Copper, Copper, Copper Chameleon

I'm not a toad

I'm not a to-oh-oh-oh-oad

Lovin' would be easy if your colours were like my dreams

Oxidized green

Oxidized gree-ee-ee-een!

 

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