The Elephant

By Perry Maysun

On Reverie III

Released on April 10, 2023

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[Verse 1]

You want everything

But you won't work for it

He sold his soul for a box of the chocolates

He got a curse for it

Knee deep in the trees

Big forest

Middle school, I used to do chorus

But I couldn't sing

What is a finger to wedding rings?

What is some shit to a pile of it?

You could cry over the ivory wind

Elephants die in the jungle to just so

You get the keys on pianos and go

Make a song just to sing along

With your friends when they fucked up

And light the bong

You recorded and pitched to the echelons

Then forget 'bout your friends

And your friends gone

Oof


[Chorus]

You forgot about your friend the elephant

You left him dying inside of the jungle

And took his tusks

You forgot about your friend the elephant

Gentle giant

Left him crying

It's all your fault

You forgot about your friend the elephant

You left him dying inside of the jungle

And took his tusks


[Verse 2]

Teardrops on the pavement

I ain't seen my face in a week

Mirror, skin don't clear up

Pancake syrup

You seem different

Thats cus I am

Situation getting sticky with jam on the plate

With the crumbs all over my hands

Bandaids don't band cuts, they just get it-

-covered so you could ignore it and best it

I am sick of using metaphors

For every problem I got

I should just say it blatantly

And I would get a lot

Off my chest for the best of me

If God's real, we are the centerpiece

If God's fake, we are the- I don't know

Where do we go?

[?] is my AF1s

And then cover the ground we call the road

Why does it look like this?

I see a growth in my confidence

Don't keep opening this bottle then

Griffiths choke on the bottle neck

Hope is a show in this hall of sin

Fuck you up and my only friend

You forgot about your friend


[Chorus]

You forgot about your friend the elephant

You left him dying inside of the jungle

And took his tusks

You forgot about your friend the elephant

Gentle giant

Left him crying

It's all your fault


[Verse 3]

Please don't abandon me

Take my tusks from your sanity

Always from things that is new to be

Bleed out calm cus I'm already knowing this bodies a vessel

Incasing the souls in it

Two bitches sat in a parking garage

I wash out my brain from this fire barrage

Thoughts caused by a world here long before me

But prior not long after it might get gorey and nuclear

Fuckers in suits hit the button

And prove to you they didn't care bout your song

And when everythings gone

And everyone goes

And everything's dead

And everything grows back

Look in the woods

You see the elephant still there

The elephant still there