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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!