Shapeshifter

By Foreknown

On Ornithology

Released on January 1, 2014

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[Verse 1]

Check it!

I met this girl

She hooked me with a mischievous smile

The more we talked the more I knew I was digging her style

I tell her about the stuff I like and she is like "OMG!"

"You must be some sort of psychic, I was thinking the same thing!"

I said "Tell me your favorite movie and your favorite song"

She said "You first!"

Right then I should have known something was wrong

I'm getting ahead of myself, we'll get to that in due time

At this point I found the perfect girl, same interests as mine

We started dating but soon I started noticing stuff

Like how she'd get confused and flustered when I was calling her bluff

For example, she said she was a Star Wars fan and then

Told me that she liked the part where Vader killed Anakin

"You mean philosophically..."

She said "No, I mean physically. Remember when he killed him the force electricity?"

I told her that's impossible, they're the same person

Nervously she said she saw the unreleased version

Well it was all downhill from there

She didn't like the stuff I liked

She was just real prepared

She studied me before she buddied me on MySpace

She wanted to see the stuff I like so she could copy my taste

She hacked into my email, studied every detail

I felt like I was Bridget Fonda in Single White Female

Once I found out that she was tapping my telephone

I told that girl she needed to leave me the heck alone

Now it's been a while but she's still calling all my friends

Trying to pretend like she's a victim like she's on the defense

To be honest I'm tempted just to call her again

To get my movies and my shirts back

But nothing is worth that

You heard that?

Copy this story down and hopefully you'll learn that

When you have too much in common you could get burned bad

If you're in a same situation, give yourself a firm slap

Before it's too late to turn back


[Hook 1]

Yo that girl she did her research

She was always wearing my favorite band's t-shirts

In her mind she was convinced that we were meant to be

But mentally that girl had no sense of identity

She was a shapeshifter

A shape--a shapeshifter

A shapeshifter

I really don't believe this

A shapeshifter

A shape--a shapeshifter


[Verse 2]

She was like the symbiote in Spider Man 3

She conformed to what I was and brought the worst out of me

She was an alien creature

I was like Sigourney Weaver in a fight with a parasite trying to burst out of me

Now I must admit I brought this on myself

I'm known for picking girls with questionable mental health

She was crazy and it kills me inside to admit it

But I chose her it was the thrill of the ride that did it

And like most rides it was so fun at the beginning

Then came the looping and spinning

The puking and spitting

"How long is this ride? You've gotta be kidding!"

That's a metaphor

For the type of pain and anguish that you could be headed for

If you try to take a bull by the horns, better be a matador

Or else you had better start running because a shapeshifter's stamina's simply stunning

Since my run-in with that one, I have become overly conscious

Even at my polar opposite, I instantly get nauseous

I ended up in a relationship that's shakier than Parkinson's

The way she burned me, you would think she was an arsonist

I guess the moral of the story is things don't end up so glorious

When you try do date yourself, you stupid narcissist!


[Hook 2]

Ayo that girl she did her homework

When as far as dressing in black and going covert

In her mind she was convinced that we were meant to be

But mentally that girl had no sense of identity

She was a shapeshifter

A shape--a shapeshifter

A shapeshifter

I really don't believe this

A shapeshifter

A shape--a shapeshifter

Somebody must've told her I had a thing for amoebas