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Monkey in a Cage

from Lost Episodes by Reality Show

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pushing a shopping cart made of bones
I watched his eyes implode
we were young then and we didn’t know what was coming
but we didn’t see not seeing nothing

dragging a cross through an oil field
I thought of choking fog
it just rolled in and ate everything we saw
then he never did see nothing but fog

so tell me, what is it like to have life dry up under your feet?
and if you’re born without hands how can you ever beg for scraps?

dragging a thirty case of limbs down fell street
we watched the world turn cold
we were hungry then but all there was to eat
were the eyes of the tired and crying

stumbling along through a shanty town
I asked where life had gone
you didn’t look at me cuz by then you couldn’t see
but you smiled and you said it’s all around us

so tell me, what is it like to have life dry up under your feet?
and if you’re born without hands how can you ever beg for scraps?

Britches had his eyes sewn shut
Britches had his eyes sewn shut
they sewed that monkey’s eyelids shut
a baby in a cage

and though we can’t see ourselves in this river
because it’s dried up
I can see my reflection in the blankness
of your eyes

they taped a screeching to his head
they taped a screeching to his head
they claimed that they were scientists
a baby in a cage

and though you can’t see at all now
I can feel you climb onto
the bike that you rode in on
that taught you how to fly

and though we can’t we can’t see ourselves
in this river because it’s dried up
I can see my reflection in your smile

so tell me, what is it like to have life dry up under your feet?

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from Lost Episodes, released September 20, 2016

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