To Tame the Beast

Locked and caged within the depths of broken dreams
Chained by shackles of dismay
I have fogotten what it means
Why I fight through every day.
You stand and you muse
Poke the stick through the iron bars of my heart
Just a deprided lion stuck in a zoo
Can I ever be released from this dark?
You have only tamed the mind
The soul remains free
Am I so blind
That I could not see
That all you wanted was control
Do you even know my name?
I will jump through lit hoops, straight from hell
Strip my faith and shave my mane
But my heart I will not sell

Wild and fierce is what I used to be
Feared and adored for what I was
Confined now, you gloat in your own damn glory.
Ripped straight from the core
You stole my hope
Never content with what you have, you just want more
So the roar that once broke through the savanah of my homeland
Can't even be choked through me strangled throat.
All of New York will see
The pathetic cat, that you so greedily made me.

So now I lay here nostalgic and damned
Why even try to bite the hand that feeds
When the hand manipulates and scams?
Unrequitedly, I listen and obey
You laugh and you smirk
As you see right through my eyes, all that's left a clouded haze

Broken and Used
You leashed the the king, shamed him too
But the hierarchy has switched no longer a leader in this everlasting doom.

I bet you are happy now
Lifelessly I drag around my pitiful body
And I know you are happy now.

I really hope that you are happy now.