How long

How long have we known each other now?
Five, ten years,
And I guess we've changed,
And we'd run into each other in the subterranean world...  

- With the extras in their fright wigs and fins on their way from funkhole to dugout...
- And  one night would keel over into another,
and there never would seem to be a day,
and hey, you used to say you were polishing up on your survival tactics
(techinques)
for the end of the world...
- And you, you used to dig your beak into my ear and say "nothing" like a secret...

How long have we known each other now?
Fifteen, twenty years maybe, 
And certainly we've changed...
And we'd run into each other in the subterranean world...

- And before I knew you or before we met
- Oh yes, way before then I was itching in the cradle, making my way to the slime pits & the sludge traps
looking for love...
- And all the bushy brats turned out from the western burgs
minced in the powdermills,   noctambulating around
nowheresville
- And some were so desperate for sleep the only retreat was
- The sad dormitory... 
- Yes, one would go for a rest
(or a test?)

How long have we known each other now?
Up to thirty years I guess,
And maybe we've changed...
And didn't we see each other in the subterranean world?

- You, did you really have your headress?
- Hmmm.... yes
- I used to dress up like a girl, and how did you ever make it back home? 
- I... I... I'd leave a trail of pearls.  Did you ever see a doctor - or a priest?
- Oh yeah - a priest.
Do you remember the guy with the sign "the end is nigh"?
- That was me (do you remember what was written on the back?)
And
Do remember the guy with a boxful of wind?  Or maybe it was a cassette
- I don't really...
- I don't know either - or was it me?

How long have we known each other now?
I've never seen you in my life (forty years?)
How long have we known each other now?
I've never seen you in my life (fifty years)
How long have we known each other now?
I've never seen you in my life (sixty, seventy, eighty three years)
And I hope that we've changed...
And we've never seen each other in the subterranean life...