Wild Child

One hundred sum odd summers ago

When I was younger and I hungered

With a rumblin' in my stomach but my supper went cold

Cause I was stuck within a rumpus in a jungle when I jumped in my boat

And I was stubborn and reluctant and in trouble being punished by my mother

Cause I wasn't someone under control

And I was runnin' with the wild things and huntin' for ghosts

And I was just a child still dressing up as a wolf

I'm foundling, prowling, my surroundings growling, proudly crowning king but I don't value a throne

That don't allow me to think and doesn't help me to grow

So get me out of these trees cause I'm about to go home

I'm in the Isle of the Beast and I survived on my own

With my eyes on my dreams and my mind on my goals

And now I'm miles to sea and I'm drowning alone

Does anybody miss me

Does anybody notice I am gone

Does anybody miss me

Does anybody notice I am gone

My head is an animal

The forest and fury friends

From dirty paws and the creatues of snow

I rowed my boat and rode the ocean's tide, evoking strokes from Hokusai

Howling in my wolf disguise

Some where along the line I froze in time

And I was growing older but emoting

My emotions like a permanently broken inside

The burning in me won't subside

The birds are singing hello, goodbye

Words are stinging, don't know why

Hurts to think I've turned into a person no one likes

The dirt they fling like motorbikes, reversing, spinning

Smoking tires, no perfect image, poster child

Going rogue to roam a while, and sow my wild oats

Some how I know I won't survive

But now I'm back in my room

I got a beard on my face

And since I packed up and moved, all my hair has gone gray

And everything in this room is still exactly the same

I see the tears on the pillowcase and wish that I stayed

Cause it's been years since I was little but I'm still little with angst

Does anybody miss me

Does anybody notice I am gone

Does anybody miss me

Does anybody notice I am gone

Why why why why do you say goodbye goodbye

Through the woods we ran

In my relentless pursuit, just to be understood

I left my bed in my room, and ventured deep in the wood

Amongst the beasts I believe, that I was decent and good

Cause I've been called a monster plenty, impossible to talk to

That's the constant common commentary

And all too often arbitrary with dirty pawns

Your claws get messy

Heart is heavy pulmonary pause

I'm positively lost, a cautionary tale

Not to be so hard on family, always ready to be wrong

But the problem is, my responses are involuntary

I'm not wanted, then I'm gone

When they lock me in a box, like solitary

Crawling walls become the world, in and out of weeks

In almost over a year

And I was drifting out to sea, convinced that nobody cared

And I think that now I see, how I've grown to a man

And I'm still the wild thing, that they told me I am

And that's how the story goes

The story of the beast with four dirty paws