aka King of the Firemen*

There is nothing you can tell me that you haven’t told me
that I haven’t told you I don’t believe
Only when you say what you don’t mean to say is the time
when you say something that I can conceive
All the stories that you tell you tell it all the stories
all seem far too fetched to actually be
I lie here thinking you don’t think I think your lying
but I think the story most outrageous to me

Chorus:
(was the) Flight of the sea otter
Pause (Four feet!) above the water
Flight of the sea otter
Feet (four paws) above the water

The orphans they admire that you stopped that deadly fire
and the fireman made you their new king
You kept that trans-Atlantic ship from sinking in that whirlpool
and that’s something I would like to have seen
How you won the spelling bee by spelling “bee” it seems
to me to be an unbelievable scene
When you found that Holy Grail and put it back and didn’t tell
is almost, but not quite as obscene

Chorus

I don’t think you think I know that you don’t know I know that
you don’t think I find you hard to believe
I can’t believe you don’t believe I don’t believe you when I say
your stories are too hard to conceive
All the stories that you tell you tell it all the stories
all seem far too fetched to actually be
I lie here thinking you don’t think I think your lying
but I think the story most outrageous to me

Chorus

* Originally recorded by Noisepie ~1996; live at The Belly Up