The tiger got to hunt The bird got to fly The man got to sit and wonder why The tiger got to sleep The bird got to land The man got to tell himself one day he'll understand
They can't slow my shows throughout the lower south So with my rapified motormouth I capsized the show promoters house Claimed my coined and copped a case of cola Hopped a train so vain we was soaking down to NOLA I'm a scatterbrain eatin boxes of Zatarain's at the lack of stains toppin table tops Tellin cable cops that I don't have a name or occupation That's when they lost they're patience And brought me to the station for some cross examination I'm being held under wrongful suspicion All bundled up in the awkward position Till my man the jailer handed me a file I filed the bars and documents and wandered down the aisle Once back on my hurtin feet I hurdled free to bourbon street Where unexpectedly I met a fleeter at a cappa cheese who want to murder me Because my eigth grade grant paps sold the land with a gun in his hand Now lookin back is just a blur They sold me for my fur plus my frankincense and mur I had to been beaten in the head with the bike to feed my Blues I won't dispute all my philosophical views Although I didn't have many to lose The most significant of them is one I often abuse I was awoken several hours later by defibrilater Headed to the sixth level in a crowded elevator in the medecinal centre Where the doctors all said I would be shackled in forever to a hospital bed They tried to calm me down with their sedatives and drowsiness Then I read the proud text of malcom x It taught I should never let em put my mouth to rest and speak out against Money hungry charlatans and counterfeits One day I snapped, gnawed throught my straps Fled my water lunchin through the rubber somewhat blurry mass and ass Of parishioners who were all in awe Why you worship this awful god with all your knobs Jumped on the table ripped the box from off the wall Swung a line cable through the window in the hall The nurses pulled can of pepper spray from their purses But their disperses prove worthless as I made my getaway to the surface Pirated a charter boat crossed the gulf along the fornegaults to the galapagos Off in the distance a perforated roll Ran through playin piano like worms through a skull
Yo nietzsche couldn't reach me nor could any of his kind Cause cuttin down vines with a simian mind is like tryin To drain the ocean out on the dry land Even if you succeed the water meets up again It's been a long time since my introspective journey And with the help of a respected attorney I moved out west to find a home in Idaho Long from the land of Cajun catfish and Zydeco And up here they're aint nothin to do Unless your into having barnyard fun and huffing glue And I'm not so I sit and wonder lots As my chargle didding mind sifting to another spot Would stay out of picture women swim without a sone thought And reality and man killed the next stores crop And I used to do the same for an answer to my question Till I figured out there aint a man who has possession Assuming there's a foundation there to posses It's all too human too expect any sense The thought would always claw at the back of my mind Why outta all the great beasts why I had to be mine Leg leg arm head upright spine It's a members only club with one way to resign
The tiger got to hunt The bird got to fly The man got to sit and wonder why The tiger got to sleep The bird got to land The man will never understand even if he thinks he can