Mar 18th 2016 Lyrics

Ophidiophobia

Here I was

You got agendas when you claim to protect us

You do it for your image when you claim to protect us

You got agendas when you claim to protect us

You do it for your image when you claim to defend us

You got agendas

When you claim to protect us

Do it for your image

When you claim to defend us

My uncle was cool and yes he was amazing

Back in 2014, I was in Grade Six

Every afternoon, after school

We watched animals instead of cartoons

And being a kid with no phone

I became imaginative with no close

With no phone I began to read more

There was abook I read, it still fascinate

And as a kid, I'd contemplate

You'll get me if you heard Drogas Wave

There was a scientist with biotechnology or microtechnology

Gave it to a group of creatures to upgrade them

But not the LongChains, instead of slavery, they fought pollution

Industrialization - and all that bomb the earth

Pardon my concepts, I was focused on the progress

Of improving my progress, enlarging my content

Get this, get that, my love for creatures go way back

Think deep but don't head scratch

Get that

Soul

You got agendas when you claim to protect us

You do it for your image when you claim to protect us

You got agendas when you claim to protect us

You do it for your image when you claim to defend us

You got agendas

When you claim to protect us

Do it for your image

When you claim to defend us

Two years passed in 2016

I'm in Grade Eight, don't let it mislead

In 2015, in-between, nothing happened

Over that let's get action

So in Umbilo they organized a show

For us Grade Eights before we go

For the holidays just so you know

So the guests brought spiders and a lot more but the stand outs were the serpents

So as the show went I was too afraid to go ahead

To see them upfront in front of learners

But when the show closed, they offered us to take pics with a python

And being a kid I couldn't hold back all my urges

With the love I spoke about, this picture would be diamond

So behind the office, one by one we took pics we took pics

But I didn't, I was too scared

So I stepped back and let others through

I guess love and fear have smothered you

But not completely, I was lost in line

So a part of me was optimized

Now my turn, everyone's gone

He lay the snake upon my shoulders

And he steps back to take a picture

The camera flash but afterwards there was no movement

I was already scared but it got worse

When I felt the snake moving closer towards my throat

A few milliseconds I was jittery

I can't describe the look with imagery

In the back of my head, I better get it off before it finish me

So I don't hesitate to throw it on the floor

They all stepped back with face full of awe

The owner jumps forward and nearly something racial

Maybe he did and my history is a bit jaded

Beside that, there's no consequence

But apparently the snake was injured

Misfit but there's nothing more I've feared since

Soul

You got agendas when you claim to protect us

You do it for your image when you claim to protect us

You got agendas when you claim to protect us

You do it for your image when you claim to defend us

You got agendas

When you claim to protect us

Do it for your image

When you claim to defend us

I'm sorry, I'm the cause of my hypocrisy

I've spoken against something I've also committed

And did it all in the name of being authentic

While I ignore the fact that I harmed a snake

It's still a living being when you discard the hate

And it's bothered me but as late

I've had to realise that it's deeper than I thought

And the African Soldier was used to bury all

Not directly but subconsciously

As I conceived it three years after it

I'll admit, it's weird to confess such a thing

But trauma is a monster if it gets ignored for years

And you get laughed at by friends and peers

I get that you found it funny because I too also laughed

But I'm the one who'll see a snake and get in shock

Snakes on a Plane would leave me without sleep

My conscience is easy to attack

And the thought of my actions haunts me bad

I've acted holy but this changes that

For what it's worth, I apologize

You could pass it off as a joke

Since it's an apology to a snake

But evil deeds are evil deeds

So now you know I screech

At the thought or sight

Of a snake, I become disorganized

Forgive me that's all I ask

And I hope you find it despite it all you lost

Soul

You got agendas when you claim to protect us

You do it for your image when you claim to protect us

You got agendas when you claim to protect us

You do it for your image when you claim to defend us

You got agendas

When you claim to protect us

Do it for your image

When you claim to defend us