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, 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