The squirming coil of sunset, I keep within my reach   Tried yesterday to get away and hitchhiked to the beach   I saw Satan on the beach trying to catch a ray   He wasn't quite the speed of light and the squirming coil      It got away, yea, it got away   It got away, yea, it got away   It got away, yea, it got away      The muscles flex the mother's ring, they fasten children to her king   And sent him down the crooked street   When he returns, the birth's complete   Jimmy holds the tannis root, the forest's tasty nectar shoot   The sun tips off the monarch's suit from sequined sash to shiny boot      I'd like to lick the coil some day like Icarus, who had to pay   With melting wax and feathers brown and he tasted it on his way down   Stun the puppy, burn the whale, bark a scruff and go to jail   Forge the coin and lick the stamp, little jimmy's off to camp      It got away, yea, it got away   It got away, yea, it got away   It got away, yea, it got away   It got away, yea