When I Was an Animal - Momus

When I was an animal I acted pretty badly

Yet you somehow treated me so well

I jumped on you in bed, sank fangs into your flesh

Your breasts were often lunch and your house was my hotel

I covered you with semen, did not control my urine

Licked you in the face because I like a salty tongue

Chewed your iPhone cable, left poo on the table

And when you had guests in showed my genitals and bum

And yet you didn’t punish me, you fed me and you loved me

What happened to the way that we began?

When I was an animal the stars glittered above me

There’s just the ceiling now I am a man

When I was an animal I didn’t have a job

Didn’t give you children or do the washing up

Now you give me hell when the bathtub overfills

Charge me actual money for my share of the bills

When I’m creeping back to being an animal again

You inform me I’m a bastard and a pain

You say that I’m responsible, I’m a human being

My days of being an animal are well and truly gone

I walk on my hind legs now, brush my hair and part it

What happened to the way that we began?

When I was an animal I took so much for granted

Now I wonder who or what I am

When I was an animal you fed me and you loved me

What became of the way that we began?

When I was an animal the stars glittered above me

There’s just the ceiling now I am a man