In actual fact it is an old Tom Waits song. Short, sweet, and sorrowful.
Men can choose to be whatever animal they want to be, and silly girls
will always take them back... I think I would like to be the lion at rest
underneath the stairs.
Yeah all those animals in unusual locations was slightly disconcerting.
There is a hippopotamus reading a book... but lets keep quiet about that.
Everybody disregards the hippo in the room... and that big bovine
looks like it has just come from a china-shop.