The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is a semi-aquatic mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Together with the four species of echidna, it is one of the five extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young. It is the sole living representative of its family (Ornithorhynchidae) and genus (Ornithorhynchus), though a number of related species have been found in the fossil record.
The unusual appearance of this egg-laying, venomous, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed mammal baffled European naturalists when they first encountered it, with some considering it an elaborate fraud. It is one of the few venomous mammals, the male platypus having a spur on the hind foot that delivers a venom capable of causing severe pain to humans. The unique features of the platypus make it an important subject in the study of evolutionary biology and a recognisable and iconic symbol of Australia; it has appeared as a mascot at national events and is featured on the reverse of the Australian 20 cent coin. The platypus is the animal emblem of the state of New South Wales.
The platypus is the lowest order of mammalian life
It has a multi-purpose orifice and no teats
Every year thirteen platypi are brutally slaughtered
Ornithorhynchus anatinus - platypus
Sleeping geology
On the isolated shore
For millions of years
Experimental continent
On purpose or accident?
Mysterious evolving
Problem solving
A vaudeville? A nation including one superior creation
A vertebra? Inverted...quite unheard of...
Orphan in a family
And a sole survivor
He's a living fossil
Reptillian? Mammalian
He's a bird-beaked, beaver-butt Australian
Amphibious? Paradox wearing plaid socks
Furry beetle? A bugbear, and a palezoologist's nightmare
Symmetrical physique of disbelief
The platypus has the brain of a dolphin
and can be seen driving a forklift in his habitat of kelp
He is the larva of the flatworm
and has the ability to regenerate after injury
No relation to the flounder.
Someone shipped him to the blokes
Who said he was a hoax
So they cut him to pieces, wrote a thesis
A cranium of deceit, he's prone to lie and cheat;
It's no wonder -- a blunder from down under
Duckbill, watermole, duckmole!
I pushed the life boat from the side.
I'm floating aimlessly but staying for the ride.
My hull has finally sprung a leak.
I scoop the water but I'm starting to get weak.
Something has changed.
Something is wrong.
Something is gone.
More waves than I have ever seen.
And each one gets bigger as I'm breaking at the seams.
The storm that just won't ever die.
I'm in the ocean and there's nowhere left to hide.
Something has changed.
Something is wrong.
Something is gone.
Oh God.
It's been a while since I came to you.
And I admit it's foolish to wait
'Til now to talk things through.
Solitary confinement
... With no walls that i can see.
I can't help how i'm feeling.
A little help would go
A real long way with me.
Oh God ... living confusion.
Oh God give me relief.
Ever changing illusion.
Suck the life out of me.
Oh God.
How did it ever get this way?
My own contentment,
I took for granted only yesterday.
A tought situation
Has put an angle on my view.
I'd take care of it all myself,
But I know
That there is not much i can do.
I'd take care of it all myself ...
Blue skies, fireflies, I've nothing to say to you
Big dreams, loose seams, I've nothing to say to you
There once was a time you were a good friend of mine
But the memory's blurred some days
But when I awake to the ice on the lake there is nothing
to say
I've nothing to say to you
Fanfare, I don't care, I've nothing to say to you
Hard time, cheap wine and nothing to say say to you
There once was a time you were a good friend of mine
And I always thought it'd say that way
But when I awake to the ice on the lake there is nothing
to say
I've nothing to say to you
Rolling hills and summer thrills, images all in blue
A life gone by, a timid sigh, a path made of what is true
But then somehow a hollow cloud covers what once was
you...
Blue skies, fireflies, I've nothing to say to you
I am the captain and it feels absurd.
How I let my life crash down by your every word.
And I know you feel the weight it puts on you.
But I can't stop thinking we can make it through.
Can we keep hanging from the tower?
Can you believe in what you once could feel?
Not turning back but going up the hill.
I'm sure there is a view from the very top.
And then it's all downhill and never stop.
Can we keep hanging from the tower?
Can we keep hanging from the tower?
Today I said out loud a little prayer.
And I Don't believe it died out in the air.
It maybe seems impossible today ...
But I will keep believing anyway, everyday, all the way.
A girl of such grace, a smile on your face.
A woman of women to me.
A musical prose or a beautiful rose.
And you brought us all down to our knees.
Ribbons from flowers divided into.
Given to those left alive.
And when you slipped quietly into heaven's door.
I never said bye bye.
I laughed with you children and we love together still.
Your blood runs down deep in our veins.
And the way that you've welcomed everyone into the fold.
Your love covered all of the pain.
Ribbons of love divided into.
We hold with our hearts and our lives.
And some will slip quietly into heaven's door.
Sunshine. Moon beams. Sometimes ...
I can't see any different between them.
Morning. Midnight.
Bright star of my eyes is hiding from me.
Cry. Sometimes you make me cry over you.
Monday. One day. "Mayday".
I am calling out over the sea.
Over. Beginning. Water from my eyes is falling.
I pushed the life boat from the side.
I'm floating aimlessly but staying for the ride.
My hull has finally sprung a leak.
I scoop the water but I'm starting to get weak.
Something has changed.
Something is wrong.
Something is gone.
More waves than I have ever seen.
And each one gets bigger as I'm breaking at the seams.
The storm that just won't ever die.
I'm in the ocean and there's nowhere left to hide.
Something has changed.
Something is wrong.
Tragic aimless rollercoaster. A flower stem without a
bloom.
Reaching out for something better. And giving up inside
the room.
But I bring rain down on a starving desert. And I'm with
you.
I can fill those empty eyes up with my love.
Yellow orange colored glasses. To cover up the fading
blue.
And will it ever come together? The love residing deep in
you.
But I bring rain down on a starving meadow. And I'm with
you.
I can fill the deepest heart up with my love.
I bring rain down on a starving river. And I'm with you.
Driving down the big highway just trying to move along my
No way to get to town with all the traffic slowing down
Look to the left and right but not a single thing in
sight
I don't know what could it be but I'm standing in line to
I'm standing in line... I'm standing in line to see
I don't know what this thing has got to do with me but...
I'm standing in line... I'm standing in line to see
Heard about a growing crowd just on the other side of
town
Something supernatural or maybe one big leg to pull
Mother Mary ten feel tall or just a shadow on the wall
I don't know what could it be but I'm standing in line to
Injury at the the stadium, a laughing clown, a frozen bum
Well, just about anything can end up seeming interesting
I always thought myself a little better than the rest
Your rise and fall Back up against the wall What goes around is coming back and haunting you It's time to quit Cause you ain't worth the shit Under my shoes or
the piss on the ground
No one loves you and you know it
Don't pretend that you enjoy it or you don't care
Cause now I wouldn't lie or tell you all the things you want to hear
I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU
I heard your sick
Sucked on that cancer stick
A throbbing tumor and a radiation high
Shit out of luck
And now your time is up
It brings me pleasure just to know your going to die
Dickhead, Fuckface, cock smoking, mother fucking,
Asshole, dirty twat, waste of semen,
I hope you die
HEY
Red eye, code blue I'd like to strangle you
And watch your eyes bulge right out of your skull
When you go down
Head first into the ground
I'll stand above you just to piss on your grave
Over the waters of the moment,
Over time that's yet to be.
An absent thought becomes a comment
Etched in all etenity.
My friend confusion walks with me
Up to the door but he won't leave.
Some things are just better left unsaid.
Blue green roller coaster in my head.
Darkened field of bloody armor.
... A rope is hanging from a tree.
A soldier clinging to his last breath
... A ladder sits within his reach.
My tongue can be a two edged sword
And you can be the enemy.
And if i say something this minute,
I know I later will regret.
Don't hold on to it with all your might.
I am not giving up just yet.
And if I find I can't express
All of the things I want to say.
I hope you read into my eyes
All of the time i wish i could repay.
I'm starting over