I am an enigma
that's what they all say
they read it correctly
I wrote it that way

some people don't want
to be figured out
weaving walls like vague waves
a labyrinth of doubt

every once in a while
you say something to me
that shows you may have seen
what not everyone sees

and I'm still a little
surprised at it all
that you of all people
have seen through my walls

Come to me girl
I'll make your dreams come true
You'll be entangled
As I speak in star-spangled
rhetoric to get you quick
And I always leave them mangled
But you know

Just a little closer now
I weave the illusion of freedom
As I work your every angle
Cover you in pretty bangles
As I wrap tighter
And begin to strangle
Smooth like reptile scales

As you gaze into my eyes
You'll never quite realize
How gargantuan
My coils are in size

It was your own fault really
Didn't you see me
I am the constrictor
With your listening ears
And my lies in verse
We both get a little sicker