One day a man went up a hill and came down a mountain Surrounded by cliches, he decided to start his own cliche shop The ocean surrounded his dreams and he began to imagine happier times and places The spiders were everywhere The dogs of war became invincible And all because of his surrogate mother Red metal was seen everywhere, except in the place where the man really expected to find it Plots were lost and lifts broke down The thread became thin, and the rope bridge was in danger of crashing into the sea The beer flowed as men and boys remembered the good times He awoke but couldn't remember trawling the cobbled streets for women with large fronts In China a butterfly flapped its wings Gaskets blew and the sea breeze calmed the noise |