"Flying Monkey" lyrics

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 away!