X-tal - Family Jewels Lyrics

From the second you're born
You're in somebody's debt
You're just a parasite
And don't you ever forget
And all the great big people
Who you owe your life
Take it upon themselves
To shape you with a knife

From the minute you're walking
You're assigned a load
And taught to follow the great man
Who designed the road
And every step you take
You're sinking in the mud
But when it reaches your mouth
You realize it's blood

The first word you gurgle
Is a brand new tool
You're a little loudspeaker
For them to talk through
You get your list of thoughts
You quickly memorize
And then you take them with you
Into the world outside

But don't you ever forget how lucky you are
I could have run you over with the family car
Your whole life is a gift and it came from me
So be a real good branch of the family tree

When I was all alone and maybe half asleep
I used to have a dream that I was raised for meat
And everything I saw and everything I knew
Was a vast hallucination that I thought was true
To distract my brain while my body grew
Caressed by images that seemed so real
While being fattened up for someone else's meal
Until one day they pulled the wool over my eyes
And it'd all be over before I knew I was surprised
And some omnipotent cook was laughing through the smoke
And said "it thought it was a person, what a f*cking joke"