Backbone? It takes one to know one

Your headstone is buried behind the yard

For all intents and purposes, we'll say you didn't know

How your self-inflicted, rattled bones kept others down below

Naturally, it's easier to kill a singing song

Than digging up your self-control

An untamed lion all for show

I was born to bare your passive teeth

But didn't last for long

Backbone? It takes one to know one

Backbone? It takes one to know

Backbone? It takes one to know one

If I refuse to bury all I've ever seemed to say

Does lion's pride seem justified and carried to the grave

Or do the bones of all the singing crows

Develop to your taste

Backbone? It takes one to know one

Backbone? It takes one to know

Backbone? It takes one to know one