A Drone Opting Out Of The Hive

phones buzzing on the table like downed bees

put 'em in ziplock bags, pull out the batteries

beige walls, white carpet to match the extremities

it gives a sense of order, cleanliness to the families

a love that's barely hanging on

thin and breakable like spider silk

you point your feet at the door, you got that liar's tilt

your "truth" is threaded like razor-wire, but shallow as cellophane

wrapped tight around your mouth, you can barely

don't step in the wrong spot

you will get caught

when you step in the sweatbox

they'll make you talk

but it's of no consequence

there's nothing you can say that is relevant

you can take my life, but i'll live again

a thousand deaths that i have left to give

a thousand deaths that i have left

'cause i am the

drone

opting out of the

hive

i am the

shock

that's kept you alive

i am the

drone

opting out of the

hive

your consciousness has been colonized

i am the

drone

opting out of the

hive

i am the

shock

that's kept you alive

i am the

drone

opting out of the

hive

your consciousness has been colonized

a pantry moth that never leaves

hiding in the seams

spaces in between

what you are, and what you pretend to be

walls closing in

the room is windowless

they make it like that on purpose

you flop like a dead fish

evil lurks within the plainest surfaces

a failed experiment

the conversation is strict

but the motive's in doubt

the past is frozen in ice

while the present bleeds out

don't be afraid of the silence

let it hang out

an apostle talking about kings

let it ring

i am the

drone

opting out of the

hive

i am the

shock

that's kept you alive

i am the

drone

opting out of the

hive

your consciousness has been colonized

i am the

drone

opting out of the

hive

i am the

shock

that's kept you alive

i am the

drone

opting out of the

hive

your consciousness has been colonized

tick, tick, tick, tick

tick, tick, tick, tick

tick, tick, tick, tick

tick, tick, tick, tick

tick, tick, tick, tick

tick, tick, tick, boom

i am the main character

i am the player and the narrator

i'm the symbolic and the actual

i am the rabbit swallowed whole

i am spores consuming this city

i am cancer that shows no pity

i am the monster's final form

i am exactly what you aren't

i am the

drone

opting out of the

hive

i am the

drone

opting out of the

hive

i am the

drone

opting out of the

hive

i am the

drone

opting out of the

hive