The Fly - Die Toten Hosen

There’s a fly buzzing round inside my head

And it can’t find its way out

Crawling here and there not getting anywhere

I can feel it panicking now

As it follows a bundle of nerve fibres

Down the temporal lobe to my spinal cord

Backs up to the pituitary gland

Flees to the forebrain, turns again…

I can feel each footstep like a punch

My eyes explode with pain

As it makes its way up my optic track

Then pauses and turns again…

It probes my hypotalamus

Blunders round my cranium

From the tectum to the tegmentum

Stretches its wings, then turns again…

Until it reaches the control centre

That tells me that I’m me

It burrows into my synapses

Rests a while and then it starts to feed…