Name: Porcupine boy
Duration: P00H03M51S
Description: Dedicated to all the kids out there who are caught in the middle.

Porcupine boy

from Bird Cage by The Flower Singer

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Dedicated to all the kids out there who are caught in the middle.

lyrics

Porcupine Boy

Porcupine boy, is not your toy,
He is beautiful, he is free.
You can rattle you can rake him,
Spike him you can shake him,
Porcupine boy is free.

Porcupine boy is full of joy,
His smile, lights up his face.
Try to beat him down,
With your cold hard frown,
His soul you will never taste.

He can be undressed and forced to confess,
The lies you put on his tongue.
He will do as you please, as you watch him bleed,
he cannot, he will not, be undone.

Oh wah oh oh wah oh wah oh wah x2

Porcupine boy is not your toy,
His neck, free of your noose.
You can beat him, you can kick him,
Prod him, you can stick him
His heart, it knows the truth.

He can be undressed and forced to confess,
The lies you put on his tongue.
Don’t belong in your zoo, cause his heart is true,
He cannot, he will not, be undone.

Oh wah oh oh wah oh wah oh wah x4

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from Bird Cage, track released February 3, 2013

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