We know him, he's a real good guy
And he meditates every day
He's got two daughters five and eight
And a real sweet real strange wife
Who wears an eye patch over her eyes
She says likes pirates but she won't say why
Don't ask me what happened to her eye
We don't know what happened to her eye
I'm at the desk and he's in the room
Blowing out some sweet some strange tune
Just the mournful moan of the saxophone
The mournful moan of the saxophone

When I was one my Mama gave me a spoon
She gave me a fork when I turned two
When i turned three she said "a knife for you,"
And my collection grew and grew
She said "by the time you're 33
You'll have a whole set of cutlery
You'll find a man and you'll get married,
Heart and soul and cutlery."
With this knife I thee wed
We will not part for forks or death.
I wonder if Mama knew at 23
I'd be at a desk in the big city
Some nights till one some nights till 3
Listen to men blow horns and pee
Call me kitten and wink at me
I think about when I was young and played hide and seek
I could just call "olly oxen free"
And it would have to stop chasing me
And it would have to stop seeking me
Olly olly oxen free
Olly olly oxen free

At the desk late late one night
The man in the room is a really great guy
Because he's got two daughters five and eight
And he meditates every day
I polish my spoons and sharpen my knives
Thinking about husbands, thinking about wives
The man in the room makes me think twice
He sits in the dark, he turns out the light
In the dark I can't see his eyes
Oh shit wrong place oh shit wrong time
I called a man cuz a man scared me
and I cried olly olly oxen free
he said "I'll come get you, take you home,"
the man was scared about the man in the room
A man in the dark and a girl at the desk
makes a girl old and makes a girl mean
**we all turned 45 when we turned 15
we all turned 60 when we turned 19
now I'm 23 and it's even worse
my bones collapse like a pile of birds
I should have 70 spoons and fork
but a knife in my hand is worth much more
Take the thing you are most scared of and then
Rip it open and open and open again
You sleep with women and you sleep with men
And it doesn't put humpty back together again
You sleep with women and you sleep with men
It doesn't put humpty back together again

Maybe when I turn 70 I'll sing olly olly oxen free
Blow out the candles sing olly oxen free
Cuz I bet when I am 70
They won't call my kitten or wink at me
Ask my sign, compare me to fruit
Cuz a seventy-year-old woman just ain't no use
And I'll be 70 awful soon because I am 23
Awful soon, yessiree,
And I'll sing olly olly oxen free
olly olly oxen free
olly olly oxen free
olly olly oxen free
olly olly oxen free