The Squirming Coil

The squirming coil of sunset

I keep within my reach

Tried yesterday to get away

And hitchhiked to the beach

I saw Satan on the beach

Trying to catch a ray

He wasn't quite the speed of light

And the squirming coil

It got away, yeah, it got away

It got away, yeah, it got away

It got away, yeah, it got away

The muscles flex the mother's ring

They fasten children to their king

And send him down the crooked street

When he returns, the birth's complete

Jimmy holds the tannis root

The forest's tasty nectar shoot

The sun tips off the monarch's suit

From sequins stash to shiny boot

I'd like to lick the coil some day

Like Icarus who had to pay

With melting wax and feathers brown

He tasted it on his way down

Stun the puppy, burn the whale

Bark a scruff and go to jail

Forge the coin and lick the stamp

Little Jimmy's off to camp

It got away, yeah, it got away

It got away, yeah, it got away

It got away, yeah, it got away

It got away, yeah