| An earwig crawled into my ear* | |
| Made a meal of the wax and hairs | |
| Phoned friends, had an insect party | |
| But all I could hear was the bass drum drum | |
| All I could hear was the bass drum drum | |
| Now if you put your ear close you'll be able to hear | |
| Not the sea shore noise of the shore sea shell | |
| The clatter of plates | |
| And the bronze of the bell | |
| Going ding dong, ding dong, ding dong dong | |
| Going out of my mind as they hollow my head | |
| I'm floating in the air, but my body's in bed | |
| The more they eat, the more I see | |
| What is not, but just could be | |
| You can hear them laughing in my head | |
| You can hear them laughing in my head | |
| Ha ha ha ha ha | |
| Now they've eaten my memory, I can't recall | |
| How the world used to be before | |
| So a vision is the same as what is real | |
| Depends upon the lighting, and how I feel | |
| Ding dong, drum drum, ha ha ha ha ha | |
| And then the music stopped | |
| The musician went away | |
| They'd eaten all my brain | |
| The red and the gray | |
| They all staggered home | |
| Down a tunnel through my nose | |
| Where my brain used to be | |
| Now there's only a hole |