Platypus Lyrics - Disco Volante - Mr. Bungle

Ornithorhynchus anatinus - platypus 

Sleeping geology 

On the isolated shore 

For millions of years 

Experimental continent 

On purpose or accident? 

Mysterious evolving 

Problem solving 

A vaudeville? A nation including one superior creation 

A vertebra? Inverted...quite unheard of... 

Orphan in a family 

And a sole survivor 

He's a living fossil 

Reptillian? Mammalian 

He's a bird-beaked, beaver-butt Australian 

Amphibious? Paradox wearing plaid socks 

Furry beetle? A bugbear, and a palezoologist's nightmare 

Symmetrical physique of disbelief 

The platypus has the brain of a dolphin 

and can be seen driving a forklift in his habitat of kelp 

He is the larva of the flatworm 

and has the ability to regenerate after injury 

No relation to the flounder. 

Someone shipped him to the blokes 

Who said he was a hoax 

So they cut him to pieces, wrote a thesis 

A cranium of deceit, he's prone to lie and cheat; 

It's no wonder -- a blunder from down under 

Duckbill, watermole, duckmole! 

Barnacle