Gave up your pride, your dignity
For a pair of taxidermic wings
How convenient
When the room went crooked, you blinked
Your palms, blistered from
Clapping for a king that erased your face
Paper halo
Hollow spine, borrowed time
Suddenly flies come to blacken the skies
As they drink up lies and they feed on decay
The puppeteer's strings tangle in their wings
And they tumble to Earth under gluttonous weight
Flying monkey
(You are not welcome here)
Fly away
This ain't that kind of circus, so get back
I won't be another victim to your rat pack
Enjoy your plummet
Flying monkey
Words of glass, right on cue
You may look different now
But gravity recognizes you
And it is calling you down
I don't walk the ground where the carrion lies
I don't trace the paths of the morally grey
Gravity bets on devotion unchecked
I don't fall with the things that are born to obey
Flying monkey
(You are not welcome here)
Fly away
This ain't that kind of circus, so get back
I won't be another victim to your rat pack
Enjoy your plummet
Flying monkey
Patience
This rots inwards (in words)
No one survives a favour
Wait your turn
Honour the dust that made you
As it welcomes you home
I'm not the one that betrayed you
You should have watched where you'd flown
Flying monkey
(You are not welcome here)
Fly away
This ain't that kind of circus, so get back
I won't be another victim to your rat pack
Enjoy your plummet
Flying monkey
Flying monkey!
Fly, fly away!