Runway Outcast - A3, Old Words

[A song about a hopelessly mismatched fashion outcast who proudly refuses to fit into any style, trend, or category. Asthmatic astatic - a person so mismatched and disconnected from fashion that even the forces that are supposed to pull things together can’t bring them into alignment.]

I’m a mixed-matched Garanimal,
A closet animal lost in the kingdom
Of the apparel zoos.

An asthmatic astatic…
Stretched beyond a magnet’s pull—
Breathless, stuck,
No return,
No restocking fee.

A runway outcast,
A tapestry of everything,
A collage of nothing—
A fashion catastrophe

A mixed-matched Garanimal,
Too wild to coordinate,
A closet animal wandering
Past the exhibit gates.

No herd to follow,
No trend to chase,
Just a little bit of everything
All over the place.

I’m a runway outcast,
A tapestry of everything,
A collage of nothing.
No label can contain me—
And nothing really matches anything.

Am I a wallflower,
A visual sandstorm,
An anti-trend setter,
Or a runway queen?

In a world of “I don’t care,”
Where nobody knows the rules,
I’m a monkey in a fashion zoo
With a mismatched attitude.

No style, no file,
No category to choose—
Just a mixed-matched Garanimal
With nothing left to lose.

OUTRO

I’m a mixed-matched Garanimal,
An asthmatic astatic,
A runway outcast—
Or a runway queen?

Don’t closet me in.