Leaving by the same door from which he had come in, he finds some sort of freaks ghetto on the other side. When they catch sight of him, the entire street of distorted figures burst into laughter. One of the colony approaches him.
I wandered lonely as a cloud, Till I came upon this dirty street.
I've never seen a stranger crowd;
Slubberdegullions on a squeaky feet,
[Here we find a literary allusion to "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by British Romantic poet William Wordsworth. The first stanza reads: "I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."]
Continually pacing,
With nonchalant embracing,
Each orifice disgracing And one facing me moves to say "hellay".
He is grotesque in every feature, a mixture of ugly lumps and stumps. His lips slip across his chin as he smiles in welcome and offers his slippery handshake.
His skin's all covered in slimy lumps.
With lips that slide across each chin.
His twisted limbs like rubber stumps Are waved in welcome say 'Please join in.'
My grip must be flipping,
Cos his handshake keeps slipping,
My hopes keep on dipping
And his lips keep on smiling all the time.
Rael is a little disillusioned, when the Slipperman reveals that the entire colony have one-by-one been through the same glorious romantic tragedy with the same three Lamia, who regenerate themselves every time, and that now Rael shares their physical appearance and shadowy fate.
Peter Gabriel:"And this turned me into a horrible lumpy humpy bumpy species of a man not altogether different than the way you see Michael Rutherford."
Slipperman: "We like you, have tasted love.
Don't be alarmed at what you see,
You yourself are just the same As what you see in me."
Rael: Me, like you? like that!
Amongst the contorted faces of the Slippermen, Rael recognises what is left of his brother John. They hug each other.
Slipperman: "You better watch it son, your sentence has only just begun
You better run and join your brother John."
Slipperman: "You're in the colony of slippermen
There's no who? why? what? or when?
John bitterly explains that the entire life of the Slipperman is devoted to satisfying the never-ending hunger of the senses, which has been inherited from the Lamia. There is only one escape route; a dreaded visit to the notorious Doktor Dyper who will remove the source of the problems, or to put it less politely, castrate. They discuss the deceptively-named escape for a long time and decide to go together to visit the Doktor.
Peter Gabriel:"The only way of getting rid of all those horrible lumps of ours, fellow Slippermen -- and Michael Rutherford -- was the cutting off of the sexual organ."
[At other times, Phil Collins was compared to a Slipperman.]
You get out if you've got the gripe To see,
Doktor Dyper, reformed sniper- he'll whip off your windscreenwiper Rael:
John and I are able To face the Doktor and his marble table.
The Doktor: Understand Rael, it's the end of your tail.
Rael: "Don't delay, dock the dick!" I watch his countdown timer tick......
