We’re all lions kept in cages
Only rotting with the ages
And the purpose in our lives we never learn

We’ve no talents we can flaunt
And none of the things we truly want
But we can jump through flaming hoops and not get burned

Being made to jump through hoops
Isn’t to us any big whoop
But it’s the one thing we can do since we’ve been trained

Because this world that man has made
Looms over us with us in the shade
But in the end, it was we ourselves who are to blame.

I’ve had aspirations and dreams
But none of them fit within the scheme
Of society’s predetermined overtone

Because over us it towers
The conglomerate’s everlasting power
That can take away every single thing I own

I guess if I never change around
My views then I never will have found
A way to stay alive with or without my dreams

But if I can still hold on
To them, then I guess I’ll carry on
That’s the only way to live on earth, it seems.