Brave the knife to make em bigger Take a pill to make it harder Suck the fat then run the treadmill Give em toys for time Buy the land then pour the concrete Drive the car but leave the kiddies Break their bones then ask forgiveness Pose while they're in rags So human Existential reverential Contradicting self-restricting So romantic yet pedantic Corporeal tangential Hurry up to catch the stoplight (Hurry, hurry, hurry up) Sell your soul to snatch the spotlight (Smile, little buttercup) Hoard the ribbons of your children (Give a curtsy flash a smile) Vicars for your lives (Mommy's little clone beguile) Pay the poseur pluck the preacher Let the TV be your teacher Paid for beer expected champagne Now you take her home So human Existential (happy little lives) reverential (offer up some chives) Contradicting (faith upon the sand) self-restricting (sitting on your hands) So romantic (enchante l'amour!) yet pedantic (seen it all before) Corporeal (give a little pinch) So surreal (do you like my fish?) Existential (I think so I am) Reverential (Friday don't eat ham)] Contradicting (paying for your trash) self-restricting (sitting on your ass)] So romantic (ooh la la, cherie) yet pedantic (status quo for me!) Corporeal (take a pound of flesh) tangential --