Hippopotamus — Don't Mistake Me

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Oh you saw me in the water and you thought "now there's a clown,"
a big round barrel-belly just a-bobbin' up and down.
You went "aw, look, he's smiling!" — friend, that ain't a smile, that's jaw,
eighteen hundred pounds of pressure and the deadliest in all
of Africa, that's right — not the lion, not the cat,
the lovable fat river-horse, now what you got to say to that?

[Chorus]
Don't mistake me, don't you dare —
thirty miles an hour and I'll meet you anywhere.
You came down to my water and you forgot to ask the rule:
everything about me is a trap, and you're the fool.

[Verse 2]
Tusks like ivory daggers and a temper like a match,
I don't hunt you, I don't eat you — I just don't like that you're attached
to the patch of mud I'm standing in, so really it's on you;
I'm a vegetarian, baby — that don't mean I won't come through.
Underestimate the chubby and the chubby writes your end —
ask the river, ask the records: I'm the last mistake you'll spend.

[Bridge]
(spoken, grinning) cute? CUTE? aw that's adorable. run.

[Chorus]
Don't mistake me, don't you dare —
thirty miles an hour and I'll meet you anywhere.

[Outro]
(horns, swagger) … smile back. I dare ya.