Room for Rent

There's a reptile living in my head

That comes out when I go to bed

And strangles my homunculus who governs

My higher executive centers, then returns

To be my nightmare incarnated

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My left and right brains cower

From the reptilian decree of power

And each side bends the knee

And relinquishes the being who is me

To see my nightmare summated

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I stalk at the behest of my beast

With my fury and wrath diseased

And peek into each sleeping room

Then leave each who are dying soon

And make my nightmare animated

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I'm cleared of any suspicions

When I offer my amnesic renditions

It wasn't me who killed them all

Not my reptile who takes the fall

My nightmare stays silently obstinated

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My boarders were all fatefully doomed

When answering the offer of vacant rooms

The coldblooded reptile bides its time

Till sleepwalking, again, my hypnotic crime

And my nightmare is replicated