Monday, February 12, 2007

Compound Eyes

A parody of Peter Gabriel's In Your Eyes
By Marcy

Bugs, we get so lost, sometimes
I’m stuck, in an office with only one door
though I want to fly away
I wound up on this wall
There’s a spider to my left
And a guy with a swatter down the hall

All my instincts, they return
A gazillion lights, in my eyes they burn
without a noise, without my pride
I stick to the wall’s side

Compound eyes
Fluorescent lights
Compound eyes
They burn so bright
Compound eyes
I see the doorway and a thousand doorknobs
Compound eyes
the resolution is so high definition
Compound eyes
If I look, I have a thousand feet
Compound eyes
oh, I want to make my retreat
Everywhere I look I have to see
With compound eyes

Lights, they cause me to see so much pain
I get so tired of working so hard for my survival
It’s all my fault for reading Kafka before going to sleep

All my instincts, they return
A gazillion lights, in my eyes they burn
without a noise, without my pride
I stick to the wall’s side

Compound eyes
Fluorescent lights
Compound eyes
They burn so bright
Compound eyes
I see the doorway and a thousand doorknobs
Compound eyes
the resolution is so high definition
Compound eyes
If I look, I have a thousand feet
Compound eyes
oh, I want to make my retreat
Everywhere I look I have to see
With compound eyes

3 comments:

The No Talent Hacks said...

OK. This is funny on compounded levels. As soon as I caught on, I fired up my Ipod and listened to the song as I read. Pure Poetry. Once I picked my laughter wracked bulky frame from the floor I knew for a fact that the flies were going to want to adopt this for their national anthem! Get this copywrited immediately. They'll be all over it like, well y'know.
-Brihack

Bryan Mahoney said...

HAHAHA! I have no such iPod so I've been trying to hum along. Brilliant I say! Other anthem possibilities: Come fly with me, I'll fly away, and Take these broken wings.

The No Talent Hacks said...

NOW do you see why I DEMAND to get you to a filk con? You would be WORSHIPPED and FETED AS BEFITS A GODDESS.

Well, maybe not. But they'd clap and stuff.

*smiles*

-LDW