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The Man Who Ate Himself Alive

from Eight Animal Omelette by The Beastman Band

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The man who ate himself alive...
would you do it to survive?
He ate his finger, and his toe,
he ate himself so what's left could grow.

Once upon a time!
A sudden storm sank his ship,
the anchor tore his leg off at the hip.
Had a dark thought, but it would not be his last.
He certainly had to do something fast.

He sparked a fire and
made himself a drumstick, and
with that one grisly meal
he gave himself three days to think.

The one-legged man who lived on a rock.
He couldn't leave... good luck.

So he built a ship out of his bones...
the only way he could sail for home.

He ate an eyeball, but just one.
He could still squint and navigate by the sun.
He ate an ear, but just one.
Other ear hear sails flap if his knots came undone.

His ship of bones
creaking in the wind,
set sail, stretch skin.
Days on end,
rolling over oceans home,
on his ship of bones.

It started with his ankle, next was his thigh,
he satisfied his appetite and he survived!

He has one nostril so he can still smell you,
but he ate his tongue so he can't tell you

...that I'm the man who ate himself alive!
Alive!

The man who ate myself alive
I ate myself alive

Did I get bigger,
or did I disappear?

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from Eight Animal Omelette, released September 24, 2011

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Danny Friedman
Scott Hatch
Noah Mass
Andrea Grey
Elizabeth Erdmann
Janel Hesch
Jason Keillor

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