Animal - Jackie Greene

My heart is a beating heart

Oh it's reckless and abandoned

Do your best to understand it honey

I do not care for most possessions

But I'm possessed by something other

Than the boring things we buy ourselves with money

I do not have to run the race

Beside the men inside this place

Of sharp turns and suburban satisfaction

But baby don't mistake me for someone who doesn't ache

I'm the same as you

With a different reaction

I was born an animal

Wild wild animal

I was born an animal

Animal

My path is an endless path

It's a long look in the mirror

Never do I near my destination

For out here among the strange encounters

I've counted on my hands to fight and stand

The trials and tribulations

But don't take my words as crude or cheap

I've got a gentle soul deep beneath the bricks

That I'm gonna haul myself around in

Yeah I'm out here trying to do my best

To stay alive among the rapids and the lies

That many men have drowned in

I was born an animal

Wild wild animal

I was born an animal

These times are desperate times

We're spited and surrounded

The hounds and vultures lean in unforgiving

We walk upon two legs as men

We burn it down just to build again

We will not make a change to our living

But I believe a change will come for us and those who demand it

For those who can't stand it

Living wild in the gutter

And on that day the sun will burn like a golden hammer

And we will understand and learn

How to live with each other

I was born an animal

Wild wild animal

I was born an animal

Animal