Olly Olly Oxen Free - Amanda Palmer

You wanted

That’s what you get for wanting

You got it

That’s what you get for getting

Forgotten

You’re gardening a rotting bed

Of ray-gun era icons

So

Let’s start it

Let’s start it

From the minute you felt it

You felt it like a prison

A panic, you felt it

Like that coffee scene

From Moscow on the Hudson

So

Be honest

It’s not as if you’re happy about it

It’s not as if you’re animatronic

It’s not as if you couldn’t

Cry out any time you wanted

Olly olly oxen free

All the people you will never be

Olly olly oxen free

Olly olly olly olly

Olly olly olly olly

Fate

You call it

You color it

The color you want it

You carpet it

That’s awful convenient

You paint yourself a nice white room

With stripes and matching curtains

So

You forfeit

You cannot build a river across it

You cannot hold your own heart hostage

You do not have the strength

To gag yourself in every closet

The wrong place, wrong mind

Timing’s always bad

You’re such a sad case

Misplaced renaissance

Inventor of a worldwide

Heartbreak, taking it in stride

'Cause you’re an expert

Aren’t you?

Aren’t you just a dime a dozen?

Murderous monosyllabic moron

With no sense of purpose

Working on your songs all night

To justify your worthlessness

To anyone who’s watching

If they only saw your alter egos

Pretty in the shop windows

Where you got auctioned hours ago

Olly olly oxen free

All the people you will never be

Olly olly oxen free

Olly olly olly olly

Higher than the king can

See no evil, hear no evil

Capture me and throw the key

See no evil, hear no evil

Capture me and throw the key away

Throw the key away

So

It’s over

You’re lying in a coffin of clutter

Your father and your sister, your drummer

Are sorting through your tapes

And lifesaver collection, and you wonder

You wonder if you could’ve done better

You wonder if you should’ve surrendered

Before you learned that

Nobody actually wants a fucking martyr

Didn’t you, didn’t you, didn’t

Didn’t you see?

Didn’t you, didn’t you, didn’t

Didn’t you see?

Didn’t you, didn’t you, didn’t

Didn’t you see me?

Didn’t you, didn’t you, didn’t

Didn’t you see me?

Olly olly oxen free

All the people you will never be

Olly olly oxen free

Olly olly olly olly

Higher than the king can

See no evil, hear no evil

Capture me and throw the key

See no evil, hear no evil

Capture me and throw the key away

Throw the key away

Throw the key away