Cries of the Elephant Man Bones - Nicole Dollanganger

When you died, I heard the cries in the night

Of your soul, leaving the deformed flesh that shamed your mind

All of those years, your bones wept

But now there is no skin left

The worms have eaten it, you’re free to go

And I will take your bones

And with them build a home, home

Burdened at birth inside of a face no mother could love

She let them shame you like animal

They broke your limbs and beat in

Your swollen head 'til your neck

Shattered to pieces they put in the ground

And I will take your bones

And with them build a home, home

Gooble gobble, gooble gobble

We accept you, we accept you, one of us

Gooble gobble, gooble gobble

We accept you, we accept you, one of us

Gooble gobble, gooble gobble

We accept you, we accept you, one of us

I hear your soft bones crying

I hear your soft bones crying

I hear your soft bones crying in the night

I am not an elephant!

I am not an animal!

I am a human being!

I am a-