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Horse to Water Lyrics
I could have kept my head down.
I might have kept my mouth shut.
I should have held my own,
you lead a horse to water and you
watch him drown.
your're only as big as your battles
rattle my cage with your shadow
I'm a bantamweight with a
mouthful of feathers
don't you know that what comes around
goes around
I'm not that easy
I am not your horse to water
I hold my breath I come around round round
don't darken my doorstep again
you're mixing up lemonade gin-gin
you're mixing up lose with win/win
lead a horse to water and you
watch him drown.
you're stumble on glass top table.
divas chewing chalk on cable.
humvee up a beanstalk fable,
I don't call this entertainment
'cause humpty's falling down.
I'm not that easy
I am not your horse to water
I hold my breath I come around round round
pick a fight launch a buzzy bar brawl
Friday night fuck or fight a pub crawl
bantamweight with a mouthful of feathers
don't you know that what comes around
goes around?
I'm not that easy
I am not your horse to water
I hold my breath I come around round round
I'm not that easy
I am not your horse to water
I hold my breath I come around round round
you're going down down down
this run around round round
is bound to pund the daylights out of you
I might have kept my mouth shut.
I should have held my own,
you lead a horse to water and you
watch him drown.
rattle my cage with your shadow
I'm a bantamweight with a
mouthful of feathers
don't you know that what comes around
goes around
I am not your horse to water
I hold my breath I come around round round
you're mixing up lemonade gin-gin
you're mixing up lose with win/win
lead a horse to water and you
watch him drown.
you're stumble on glass top table.
divas chewing chalk on cable.
humvee up a beanstalk fable,
I don't call this entertainment
'cause humpty's falling down.
I am not your horse to water
I hold my breath I come around round round
Friday night fuck or fight a pub crawl
bantamweight with a mouthful of feathers
don't you know that what comes around
goes around?
I am not your horse to water
I hold my breath I come around round round
I am not your horse to water
I hold my breath I come around round round
you're going down down down
this run around round round
is bound to pund the daylights out of you
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this is a great song on an amazing album. It sounds like it's about being used by someone.
It's a song about addiction. The "reptilian brain" (also shared by birds) is the level of the human mind which is the seat of all compulsive and addictive behaviors, habits. There's nothing a snake loves more than crawling in a circle -- patterns are predictable, safe. Hence the addiction cycle, and other self-destructive cycles such as are seen with battered women. "Holding the breath" is a way one might train to battle the inner beast, since the reptilian brain is also responsible for making sure we keep breathing, etc. But, even a small child can hold their breath until they pass out, provided their will to do so is strong enough to fight the snake-within.
This kind of thing is not entertainment, because this unchecked consumption of physical, mental, emotional, spiritual poisons, fueled by an epidemic lack of personal responsibility and self-discipline, are in danger of destroying the planet at the moment.