The Town of Round

歌詞

Back in the days when the world was flat Before Columbus and all of that In the town of round there lived a square The only square anywhere He had no family, had no friends All the rounds around would recommend He be like them or leave their town Squares don't fit in a town for rounds But if you're a square, it's hard to move 'Cause your corners dig in and you find that you've Gotten sorta settled; it's awfully hard To leave the trees and the flowers in your yard Well they all got together and gathered around And tried to push him out of their town But as they pushed and as they heaved A strange thing happened that you wouldn't believe. They rolled and tumbled and couldn't get a hold Kept bumping around uncontrolled. They bounced and banged and when they'd hit They chipped and dented, cracked and split Into triangles, into squares Semi-circles were everywhere And all of a sudden they realized Everybody was a different size A different size and a different shape And squares all over the whole landscape And that's the way it came to be I'm not talkin' 'bout geometry Seems a little bit unfair Start out round, end up square