The Great Apes

Sheʼs a box car rollinʼ by

Like a black star in the sky

Sheʼs a failure once or twice

Like a trailer spinninʼ out upon dizzy ice

Flowers fly when we grow old

Snakes get high, or so Iʼm told

Sheʼs an eagle out on the road

Like my favorite Beatle everyone bought and sold

All of my love and half my kisses

Superstar donʼt do the dishes

I just want the great apes to be free

Come on now, you lazy cowboy

Heads or tails, but not right now, boy

I just want the great apes to be free

Sheʼs a rain bird on the prowl

Like an urge to be yourself that you wonʼt allow

Sheʼs a forest that we burned

Just a blueprint for a life that we had never learned

Flowers fly when we grow old

Snakes get high, or so Iʼm told

Sheʼs a lynch mob on the street

Take another step and I will kill the beat

All of my love and half my kisses

Superstar donʼt do the dishes

I just want the great apes to be free

Come on now, you lazy cowboy

Heads or tails, but not right now, boy

I just want the great apes to be free

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Sheʼs a bus stop, glockenspiel

Sheʼs a simulation life that you thought was real

Sheʼs an image that we blurred

Itʼs a pixelated panther, now let it purr

All of my love and half my kisses

Superstar donʼt do the dishes

I just want the great apes to be free

Come on now, you lazy cowboy

Heads or tails, but not right now, boy

I just want the great apes to be free

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I just want the great apes to be free

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I just want the great apes to be free