Humpty Dumpty's Whimsical Semantics Songtext
von Fall in Green

When I use the word sympathise
I could relate it to the March of the Oyster Sympathisers

Meaning what?

Meaning, obviously, that the people on the march
Are in favour of the oysters. They agree with Oyster Ethics
Save the innocent oysters from corruption
By Walruses and Carpenters!
However, I could also relate it to tea and sympathy

Isn′t that the same thing?

Well, I suppose you get varying degrees of sympathy
You certainly wouldn't get high end sympathy
From the Blazing Raisin Heads, as they are continuously
Dunked in brandy and are always of a prickly disposition

But you were talking about tea

Tea, brandy, what′s the difference? They're both liquids
But the word in question is sympathise
Is it not? Let's not get carried away

Well, yes, but


Sympathise is just a word that someone, whoever that was
Has invented to represent something, it doesn′t mean
That the actual word sympathise means sympathise
It′s just a random collection of letters
And just because millions of other people
Have used it to represent the same thing
Doesn't mean it actually means sympathise
Therefore I could use an entirely different word
To replace sympathise, and in the context of the sentence
You may still be able to infer the same meaning

Whatever do you mean?

Sympathise. I could juggle the letters around

Pathsymise?

Well done, but maybe not. Let′s try an anagram

Anna who?

Steamship! Replace sympathise with steamship

Why?

Yes, that right, the letter 'y′ is missing
The march of the Oyster Steamship
Same thing

That doesn't make sense

My point entirely, Alice