I once knew a parrot who lived out of town Who made a living learning about bird watching He wore a hat suited for a blue parakeet With a nest upon his head as he walked down the street Polishing his marbles and petting his sheep, he said So with God on his shoulders and a branch for a pipe And a yellow cockatail that was mostly white There were rainbows tangled all up in his hair He said hey, I never brush and the chicks don't care And so to the edge of space I go But I stop halfway The walls of the universe are so very very very high The walls of the universe are so very very very high The walls of the universe are so very very very high And just like that, yeah, the flip of a switch The bird, he said hey, let's get out of this place My third eye sat pretty so I gave it a bone And we took a long walk out on the astral zone He said: You know that thin line between each scene? The crack you've been crossing from boring to obscene Beyond the gray trees and the mental trapeze Where the horses go clip-clop out on the place And the dissonance leaves with a flap of a wing And watching the birds is how you make a living And so to the edge of space I go But I stop halfway The walls of the universe are so very very very high The walls of the universe are so very very very high The walls of the universe are so very very very thin The walls of the universe are beginning where the end has been The walls of the universe are so very very very high The walls of the universe are so very very very thick The walls of the universe are so very very very thin The walls of the universe are beginning where the end has been The walls of the universe are so very very very high The walls of the universe are so very very very thin The walls of the universe are so very very high