You say you feel paralyzed
With new expectations
Who asked to be scrutinized?
Can't they find their own sedation
Put your arms on your head
Spread em wide and take it
The kids laugh down the block
As they grind the pulp of opinion
No one wants to be on the front page
Toss me the rag
You're missing the weight of the world
When you knew how heavy it was
Kept it in your room
By the potted plants
And you're missing the voice in your head
When it was yours, and yours alone
Just a sole siren
On an empty perch
They pick the seeds of doubt
Out of your garden
Suck em dry spit em out
And the tin rattles round on the floorboards
Gather round the tube it's showtime
Pop me a bag
You're missing the weight of the world
When you knew how heavy it was
Kept it in your room
By the potted plants
And you're missing the voice in your head
When it was yours and yours alone
Just a sole siren
On an empty perch
Two maligned
Neither one so educated
Focused lines
Epithets and teasing taunts and where'd they get the time to come up with these?
You're missing the weight of the world
When you knew how heavy it was
Kept it in your room
By the potted plants
And you're missing the voice in your head
When it was yours and yours alone
Just a sole siren
On an empty perch