You see
I had forgotten something very, very important
Yes, in my own excitement
I began plotting out crusades
For riches and glory and power
What did I know of freedom?
I was an ignorant peon
Who was born into a life of servitude
Obliging diamond-encrusted monsters
That would swallow up my kind on a whim
This was the only thing a man in my position could dream of
And caught up the moment
I had suddenly realized I had been played!
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I slept for a whole day
And I wept, for I knew what was coming
I'd not be the same anymore
My time had ended
So I begged for a whole night
And I cried as I held onto nothing
I'd not be me anymore!
He wanted his dream
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And then the djinn took form
The shape of an eel
Careened back with his mouth open wide
And though I knew
There was no talking down his malevolence
I mustered the courage to ask him
To spare me my tongue
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I'd have drained my blood!
I'd have drained my blood!
What's the worth of your life if you're not someone?
But he showed compassion
He didn't take my tongue
Stuffed my body full of wickedness
I'm kicked out
O' I've forgotten what I means to be alive!
And oh, it's so tragic
Cause there's no one home inside
I'm nothingness incarnate
I'm a throne without a king
The masterpiece!
The masterpiece!
I saw it within me!
I watched him become my soul!
And I didn't want to believe!
And as my body was wrenched from out my clutch
I could finally see!
How the hole in the plot's so clear!
For the start and the stop look the same
And it's easy enough to
Pick and pick and pick and pick!
When you're already there
No one's coming
No one heard you
Disappointed?
Call my bluff!
Cause it's hurting
And you want me to stop
That automatic affirmation
Do you understand how it made me this way?
That's my story
Now, you'll give me that day