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A cracked polystyrene man
Who just grumbles and burps
A cracked polystyrene man
Who just crumbles and burns
A crackpot and stylin' man
A cracked polystyrene man
A crackpot, a staring man
A cracked polystyrene man
And fat jesters around
If I just turn and run
And if I could pee, ooh, you want it.
And if I could be who you wanted.
But I can't help the feeling I could float to the C.I.A.
But I can't help the feeling I could blow through the ceiling
But I can't help the feeling
I could blow through the C.I.A.
But I can't help the feeling
I could blow through the ceiling.
He used to do surgery
For girls in the A-Team.
He used to do surgery
On girls in the eighties.
He used to do surgery
For girls in their eighties.
He used to do surgery
For girls in the eighties.
He wears a mask
It wears him out.
It wears him out.
Her green plastic water in a can
Her green plastic watering can
I drink plastic water in cans
Her addiction is rubber bands.
Her green plastic watering can
For her fake Chinese rubber plant.
I wish I could be Julie Walters.
I wish I could be trully wanted.
Julie Walters being an Oscar nominee for 'Educating Rita' in the 80s.
If I could be Julie Walters
And if I could be who you wanted
In a town full of Robert Plants
In a town full of rubber plants
In a town full of rebel plants
Just to get rid of sin
In a town full of rubber plants
Just to get rid of itself.
It goes around
It wears her out
Perfection is rather plain
Her fake Chinese rubber plant
She looks like paraffin
She tastes like paraffin
Like fake plastic love
She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My fake plastic love
The green plastic smoldering cam
Her green plastic watering can
Where's me hat?
Where's me hat?
Where's me hat?
Where's me hat?
It wears me out
It wears me out
It wears me out
It wear me out.
Where's the rug?
Where's the rug?
It wears him out.
It wears him out.
Yesterday's surgery for girls in the AD days
Used to do surgery for girls in the '80s