"Arachne" lyrics

Spinning Arachne
Birds are picking at the cherries in your lovely tapestry
Spinning Arachne
Looming over the loom in the middle of the room
I see you spinning Arachne
The bears are hungry for the berries in your country
Fantasy, spinning Arachne
The gray-eyed goddess Athena is in the plume, harbinger of doom

Don't
Challenge the gods
Don't
Especially that one

Because if you do, oh, Arachne
A black spider, you will become
And there's nothing more frightening
Than a black spider spinning in the night

Spinning Arachne
How your cheeks, they get to pouting when attention you're not getting
Don't game with that play
You'll give birth to Sleeping Beauty, Gretchen, little Asian children
Weaving the future
Tried so hard to make it pretty, tried so hard to really matter
Next to Pallas Athena

I won't even go there
I won't even go there
I won't even go there
Oh, Arachne

Just don't
Challenge the gods
Don't
Especially that one
Don't
Challenge the gods
Don't
Especially that one

Because if you do, oh, Arachne
A black spider, you will become
And there's nothing more frightening
Than a black spider spinning in the night