Ally the Walrus (R&E Version)

You're ally, the walrus, the singer in a band
You set out to find your corner where your ineptitudes were fine
Well congratulations, adulation, you found your kick in time
I heard the colonel sprinkled plankton to get the fish to be your fans

Well you're a leader and I envy that, you put your ass out on the line
You went forward like comet, or like a seal that slipped on ice
You gave way confidence and common sense
And you kicked your tail in time
And what's more you gave me reason to sing a chorus through the night

you don't fail to make smile, to reach on up for a better life
you're the tonic to my daydreams and the restlessness of rhyme
and you're honest, yeah...
but best of all you make me smile

I'm mindful of your fortitude because it covers me in stripes
Yeh, it cuts me like a diamond, and riles me like a knife

I've been hailed up and set upon like a vampire in the night
I've watched poor men pass between us like a flickers of red light

Like a heartless defeatist who shreds society's lines
Or like a lion in the tempest
When all your hopes they're dead or dying

You, you swoop down from the rafters time after time
To say you're "sorry for your anger"
And to say you "never wanted to fight"

you don't fail to make smile, to reach on up for a better life
you're the tonic to my daydreams and the restlessness of rhyme
and you're honest, yeh, oh yeah
but best of all you make me smile

You're ally, the walrus, the singer in a band
You set out to find your corner where your ineptitudes were fine
Well congratulations, adulation, you found your kick in time
And what's more you gave me reason to sing a chorus through the night

you don't fail to make smile, to reach on up for a better life
and you're the tonic to my daydreams and the restlessness of rhyme
you're honest, yeah...
but best of all you make me smile