Scales

from EP by Crisscross Albatross

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Look at my scales, she says look at my scales
I’m so much prettier than you
You and your fur I could just eat you alive
And all your silly mice friends too

Lend me an ear, she says lend me an ear
And lend me your paws while you’re at it
I had a favor but it’s an order now
Tend to my scales tiny savage

She looked in his eyes, his beady mouse eyes
So deep she could see his mouse soul
His heart raced much faster “Attention? Yes Master!”
She smiled as her new slave enrolled

She slithered, he scampered, that serpent such a vamper
But lust gives a blinded eye
He built her a boat to cross lakes, streams, and oceans
But she always left him on the other side

One day he awoke, no cheese and no smokes
She said they were awful habits
“Cheese is for blokes and smoke makes me choke,
Throw them to the curb, I won’t have it.”

The mouse put his paw down and said “I beg your pardon?
You have no control over me.”
She stood there stunned speechless her venom drip ceases
“How could a mouse ever flout me?”

And oh what he cannot feel is an awful lie
It’s just far too real to be smoke in his eyes
But the serpent too has a weaker side
When she sheds her skin she’s black and white

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from EP, released April 26, 2013

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