Lion - The Felice Brothers

I was once a lion

A monster in Orion

Alas the humans came

Now I’m handled with a chain

Hear the children holler

«A serpent for a collar!»

I will get no rest

In this haunted wilderness

And the crowd comes and goes

To what end?

No one knows

The critics write the canon

The bankers bring the famine

There will always be

A little crumb for you and me

Hear the serpent holler

«A child for a dollar!»

I will get no rest

In this mirrored wilderness

And the crowd comes and goes

To what end?

No one knows

Like the ships on the wind

Like the dust in the medicine

Call him Narcissus

I know all his secrets

He is such a fool

He drowned his love in a swimming pool

Hear the trainer holler

«A serpent for a collar!»

He hates it when I roar

And when he’s drunk he hates it more

And the crowd comes and goes

To what end?

No one knows

Like the ships on the wind

Like the dust in the medicine