But Never a Key

Algernon

You won’t need these flowers

They’ve revoked the horrors

Your tragedy

Now ends happily

And I'm sure that they won’t be done

Till they fenced off the ledges

And rounded the edges

Of all that goes wrong

For you, Algernon

Gone are the days where you’re endlessly racing towards

Pavlov’s reward

Now your maze

Is replaced

By the locked door

You asked for

Look

That’s the way that it goes

I'm sorry you’ll never be free

If all that you see is the danger the cage will relieve

Oh no

That’s the path that you chose

A true hedonist indeed

So don’t lift a finger, your warden provides all you'll need

But never a key

But never a key

Algernon

You’re wound up too tightly

So frayed and unsightly

Pulling on your own strings

You’re unraveling

How can a cure now be found?

With no outside threat

Just a fire in your chest

And you’re melting

All over everything

Look

That’s the way that it goes

I'm sorry you’ll never be free

If all that you see is the danger the cage will relieve

Oh no

That’s the path that you chose

A true hedonist indeed

So don’t lift a finger, your warden provides all you'll need

But never a key

But never a key

Oh

But never a key

Oh

But never a key

Oh

But never a key

Oh

But never a key

But never a key