Place in the World

Hallucigenia emerging from the Burgess Shale Like an ecdysiast appearing from behind a veil Or like a tune unfolding from the diatonic scale Chorus: To find your place in the world To find your place in the world They thought you upside down and that all back to front you were They gave no grace or quarter in your search for sinecure But then you blossomed as a velveteen onychophore Chorus Now you are fabulous and what a source of pride you are Bursting brilliantly like a pirouetting magnetar It might be blasphemous, but when you sing there's an angels' choir That keeps the savagery of prejudice at bay But when reactionary powers have amassed again That seek to mire you in a slime of galactosamine And pour out lie on lie of incendiary gasoline To deny your place in the world To deny your place in the world Pay no attention to the hatefulness of fading spite You'll outshine then with intensity of ultraviolet To bathe the galaxy in radiance of lasting light You found your place in the world You found your place in the world Hallucigenia emerging from the Burgess Shale Like an ecdysiast appearing from behind a veil Or like a tune unfolding from the diatonic scale You found your place in the world