Golden Animals

[Куплет 1] I hold the silver key to every rusted gate, I watch you pace in circles, victims of your fate. Your fur is polished chrome, your eyes are hollow glass, I count the jagged shadows as the minutes pass. You preen for my amusement in this gilded cage, A static, velvet chorus on a barren stage. I feed you vanity until your ribs begin to show, I am the only master that your kind will ever know. [Припев] Oh, look at them shine, my golden animals, Bleeding in neon, my perfect cannibals. I am the Lion with the sun in my teeth, Walking on ghosts that are sleeping beneath. Bow to the master of the porcelain zoo, Everything shiny belongs to me, too. Claws made of light, hearts carved of wire, You dance in my circus, you burn in my fire. [Куплет 2] You beg for the silence, but I force you to sing, I am the master, the parasite king. I touch your cold manes with a fingertip freeze, Bringing a predator down to its knees. Your screams are harmonic, a symphonic thrill, I swallow the essence of all that you kill. My kingdom is rotting, but dressed up in lace, I see my own hunger in each of your face. [Припев] Oh, look at them shine, my golden animals, Bleeding in neon, my perfect cannibals. I am the Lion with the sun in my teeth, Walking on ghosts that are sleeping beneath. Bow to the master of the porcelain zoo, Everything shiny belongs to me, too. Claws made of light, hearts carved of wire, You dance in my circus, you burn in my fire. [Куплет 3] The glass starts to fracture, the gold starts to peel, But nothing you suffer is truly quite real. I pluck out the feathers of angels I’ve sold, Wrapping the misery in layers of gold. My throne is a slaughterhouse painted in white, I keep you in darkness to harness the light. Just shadows in amber, forever constrained, A legacy broken, a hunger untamed. [Припев] Oh, look at them shine, my golden animals, Bleeding in neon, my perfect cannibals. I am the Lion with the sun in my teeth, Walking on ghosts that are sleeping beneath. Bow to the master of the porcelain zoo, Everything shiny belongs to me, too. Claws made of light, hearts carved of wire, You dance in my circus, you burn in my fire. [Переход] I strip off your skin just to see how it gleams, I’m living inside of your liquidest dreams. No escape from the monarch, no exit from style, I own every tooth in your decorative smile!.. [Заключительный припев] Oh, look at them shine, my golden animals, Bleeding in neon, my perfect cannibals! I am the Lion with the sun in my teeth, Walking on ghosts that are sleeping beneath! Bow to the master of the porcelain zoo, Everything shiny belongs to me, too! Claws made of light, hearts carved of wire, You dance in my circus, you burn in my fire!.. [Завершение/кода] The zoo is empty, the lions are dead, I wear the crown made of iron and dread!.. Golden animals… quiet at last, Becoming the dust of a decadent past...