let's get down to the bare essentials
and throw away all of these complications
so we can start living totally simple
you and me

since we've been involved im making some changes
im going more laundry and talking with strangers
and i'm standing upright and fastening buckles
with apposable thumbs i stop dragging my knuckles

but superman coming out of the phonebook
incredible hulk or a big hairy werewolf
i've been transformed into something much better
no longer the clown with the hand-me-down sweaters
and we fit together like oyster and pearl
or the way that an acorn is loved by a squirrel

i wish that you could have seen me before
you wouldn't recognize me for i've been transformed
into something much more advanced
pretty inside but still a warthog at first glance
and i'm not accustomed to this kind of true romance
but i could get used to it

like superman coming out of the phonebook
incredible hulk or a big hairy werewolf