The Prior Procedure

All that frightened magic when the fawn strays from the forest And the terror and the havoc when it wanders into traffic The tragic conclusion of instincts and old habits Up against the never-ending construction Now there's a luxury apartment on the top floor of some high-rise building And people go there every weekend to witness the abandoned ascension With the scraps on the shelf He said it's not so heroic Yeah, he just wants to help While wе were fleeing the forеst She stopped and made a few calls Got a spot at this penthouse With the windowpane walls Where some guy in fringed leather and a seafaring sweater Is trying to peck at some peacock with significant feathers And it looks like she's old enough to know a little better But these people seem really open-minded There were some dudes on the roof deck that were sitting with sweet view of the sunset They said you got to meet the guy that gets the tab for this Anything you want he can cover it When we showed him our hand stamps He blew smoke on our nails Pointed out the projection A PowerPoint presentation Of the chum and the shark He said it's just a reminder Love will tear us apart He started scratching at the itch That's been giving him fits since the prior procedure He said large-scale displacement's such a major modern tragedy That's why I instituted this open door policy Been thinking about kicking off some new kind of family I'm really glad that you're here He said he's through with computers 'cause they can't understand The fawn in the traffic or the failures of man How a new billionaire in an Underdog shirt Built a statue to honor his ways and his words While the rest of these martyrs got marched off to work through the weekend