Please Explain - Steam Powered Giraffe

Gather round

Sit on down

Forget your worries

What’s lost is found

Purge the data

Break through strata

Dust off your CPU

Put it to a new use

Been trying to get this one out

For a good long while

The centuries turn to the past

Still I lay beguiled

Involuntary remarks

For an old quandary a new

Left in the dark

What’s an old robot to do

Please explain

What to do with this wild goose

If there’s nothing to chase

What to do if the screw turns loose

And there’s nothing to gain

Please explain it to me

If your mustache makes a sandwich

Serve it on a platter

Two lovely nouns they need a verb

The panda climbs the ladder

If my mouth was made for mimicry

What’s a bronze robot to chew

Gum in my gears

And bat meat in my fancy shoes

Please explain

What to do with the panda on the roof

Guess it makes for good imagery

What to do with the bat meat in my fancy shoes

I could sell it to the panda

Please explain it to me

Keep those legs high

Breathe through your mouth and nose

Excellent form

The grasshopper becomes the dandelion

People are so impressed now

Break it down

I do not need uranium

Or your fossil fuels

Friction from curiosity

Powers my hydro-tubes

Answers stem more questions

And grow my algorithms anew

They do?

Yes they do

If there’s no concepts to grasp

What would I, robot, do

Please explain

What to do if the point is moot

What’s a moot anyway (I don’t know)

Is it the meat in my fancy shoes?

Or the name of this wild goose?

Guess we need some good-old-fashioned explaining

Please explain it to me