A winter the macpot's hidden and ... Dining on ...and bo evil And there were no people except for me I came to the sea to ride and to think But I was so small next to my dreams Like a man who might try and cross the seas In the year of the cock I began as a flea Spring time came no words on the page So the old sperm whale went looking for a prey And when I found a dodo that's hungry as me I dragged her to my lair by the sea Pushing forward so awkwardly I laid her bare on the eucalyptus tree In the year of the cock It was hard, hard as can be So I sat on her mental like an old stuffed goose The olives... choose And when our lives start to finally break loose She called me a skanky raccoon on the loot She though I was a rooster with the right kind of plumes But I was only a chicken who had gone cute, cute I was only a chicken We're gone choo choo And just when I knew I was meant to be alone I felt for it cold, so young and so bald Really I said where your loving all go Sure she said, but you're more like a road Like raging rams we butted our horns I was a female stag kicking down the door But then like a fish let back into the brook In the year of the cock I am off the hook And then mother died so I flew back to the states But my sister was a shark so the lion's share was weasels away And when I saw a girl I once knew living on the street A hard year went from bad to bleak My skin broke out like when I was a kid It was back to the clinic for ... and treatments And the doctors they gave the same old speeches In the year of the cock I was covered in leeches And when our lies start ...to the... The mad guy staring at this strange man named Feagle A year of lust and lost questions I guess a broken mind receives no lessons If in fact I have fallen and cracked Would I rise like a phoenix from the flames Or was I just an egg full of clay In the year of the cock I crawled all night and all day.