Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Kappa, artist - Momus. Album song Glyptothek, in the genre Инди
Date of issue: 03.12.2015
Record label: American Patchwork
Song language: English
The Kappa |
Be careful by the river when a kappa is about |
He’s a folk monster, a hairy kind of lout |
Scaly like a reptile, smaller than a man |
With green webbed feet, a salamander hand |
He swims like a fish but the kappa smells dead |
A flat wet plate on the pate of his head |
Which must stay wet or the kappa grows weak |
Sharp little teeth, a nose like a beak |
Human children are his favourite food |
Aubergines and cucumbers are just as good |
Remember that the kappa can irrigate land |
Help you with the harvest when you need a hand |
And even at his worst, at the height of his attack |
If you bow to a kappa he always bows back |
Totally unprincipled but outwardly polite |
He’s a folk monster and a rapist on the side |
He lurks down by the river fingering kimonos |
So a naked pearl diver should never go solo |
For a kappa may be lurking on the bottom of the lake |
Ready to accost and impregnate |
And soon a little folk monster will be born |
Bury it at once or the kappa will return |
If you have to fight you’ll win if you can get |
The arms off his body or the water off his head |
Remember that the kappa can bring you fish |
Reset your bones if you ever break a wrist |
And even at his worst, at the height of his attack |
If you bow to a kappa he always bows back |