#1533 - they want you in a little box

 

1533

5.72

12.iii.24

they want you in a little box

 

too far too young

too old too true

mainly just too much

 

they want to have you redacted

 

to moderate opinions, tastes

 

want you beholden, at behest

begone betimes

they think that it behoves you

 

like you bowdlerized

they’d like to bottle you

keep you fresh in the can

 

dispense at will

shove in a little tap

 

they’d like for you to sing along

but were ever you one for the choir?

 

all must this must that must not

they want you in a little box

 

pine perhaps

nailed down tight

no mirror for the breath to test

 

they wouldn’t want you woke

 

they like us to behave

to lose the attitude

 

they’d like us to cough up too

but we’ve hardly got phlegm for them

 

I don’t know about you

but

well

 

I’m singing out

I’m spilling out

spoiling for it

sheckles, gorge all up

I hadn’t meant to say a word

and now I’ve spilt the beans