Reptiles

I tried to make a break,

what a fool,

I should've known

*I never listen*

I'm in a cage,

an animal,

I'm in a cage.

But the reptiles,

they won't let me go.

I think they want you to stray.

Watch the monkey dance,

give 'em a taste.

Look at him

*he's always smiling*

Help me to escape!

*your mouth agape*

You foreign tourist...

Woe is me,

it will be a funeral,

a circus,

I'll rap on the cell door.

Questions are a fire

that needs feeding

to survive

So just you let those flames

die down.

Trained by consequence & the lash

it leaves me breathless.

Their praise is a poison to us all.

In the moonlight...

their scars flash like jewelry.

Get too precious...

get locked up in a cage.

Want to get,

gotta risk,

any move

misconstrued

& your screwed.

Tongues flash & flick as if they're

screamin.

Oh they lie

just like any lover,

oh do they,

those kisses will burn.

Under the lights,

they snap a finger,

you jump, you answer,

like a naive hooker

with a big dumb smile.

For the reptiles,

I guess you'll never know.

They won't let you go,

cause you're the

soup du'jour,

that's for sure.

Questions are a fire

that needs feeding

to survive.

So just you let those flames die down.

See them reptiles crawl?

Getting closer...

Why won't someone come to drive them away?

Don't rest too long,

it's a mistake you can't take back.

Take one lying down

for a change.

& oh,

it's like cleaning up

after an orgy

when it's over,

I wish someone would burn this place to the ground.