freak of nature (demo)

if one man's trash is another man's treasure

someone come and get my baggage, I've been stuck with it forever

young an under pressure from the older and the sober

whos' goal is to look over my shoulders and hold a conversation

so I don't bottle the pain and leave my sorrows draining

every single molecule I'm made of

but I'm probably evasive enough that every friend I've ever made

is bound to hate me and once they do I'll never change their minds

you will find; ain't nobody wanna be no friend of mine

but hey im fine

cause I don‘t even know how to keep my friends alive

 

(you see I got this)

 

tongue of a serpent

build of a sloth

think I deserved to be killed

but I'm still at large

with a beak like a razor

and the claws of a lion

this freak of nature

ain't gonna fall in line

 

I spend all this time

tryna break my chains

but if i ever got free

they would find someone

to come and take my place

so ill stay right here

in this cage i fear

and i feel

and i taste

yes im real

but a waste

of my saintlike years

 

see I paint my mirror, I change my face/phase

but I ain't quite rid of my distasteful ways

plain white silhouette of stage freight

guess I'm a just a mayfly living for a day

 

still I been amazed by my tolerance for pain

guess I never thought that I was strong enough to change

i'm a product of the maze; of the twists and the turns

and the wisdom and verses that burn in my brain

 

I am what I am

whether or not I understand it

whether or not i can tame it

im the man that I am and its about damn time

that I quit tryna shapeshift

 

so shameless; so bitter

I eat snakes like me for dinner

if you speak my language help me reconsider

cause I been teaching train wrecks how to squeeze the trigger

 

(you see I got this)

 

tongue of a serpent

build of a sloth

think I deserved to be killed

but I'm still at large

with a beak like a razor

and the claws of a lion

this freak of nature

ain't gonna fall in line

 

I spend all this time

tryna break my chains

but if i ever got free

they would find someone

to come and take my place

so i stay right here

in this cage i fear

and i feel

and i taste

yes im real

but a waste

of my saintlike years

 

ain't life weird; ain't life hard

I can see the daylight swallowing the stars

and I feel so small; no claws, no fangs

this man is not a monster, he doesn't need a cage

 

awfully human, barely a beast

the modern illusion turns bears into priests

and pigs to policemen, snakes into lawyers,

men into reapers and kids into warriors

 

I have been a symbol of the pointlessness

of ever tryna change your ways

thinking there's no way I can avoid this shit

I'm still pulling on the same damn chains

 

but I can't keep it simple I was born for this

and now I keep you entertained

how is it that I ever wanted more than this

glorious beast I tamed