Spun off from
http://www.i-mockery.net/viewtopic.php?t=4178&start=100
I didn't know that about the lyrics. I knew a lot of it was a result of Elfman and Burton throwing shit out in the air and knitting it together afterwards, though. The 'lump' thing, however, I'm pretty sure was from a song Elfman did in his Oingo Boingo days:
Listen, tender lumplings, let me take you by the hands
I'll take you from this hell-hole to the promised land
But don't blame me oh children if those promises don't keep
Cause promises, like lives, can be bought so very cheap
If 'tender lumplings' was what you were referring to, that is.