WILDMAN AND THE ZOOKEEPER
by Jim Robertson
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 WILDMAN AND THE ZOOKEEPER
This lyric was written by Jim Robertson circa 1979/'80
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The lamprey clings with suction cup mouth
sucking my vital bloodline dry.
The zookeeper smiles, inwardly,
when she thinks from this cage that I can�t fly.
And the highest satisfactions hers
when she sees me finally break down and cry.

She�s a lamprey, a zookeeper.
She�ll cage you up and take away your freedom.
She�s a Lamprey, a liontamer.
She tried to drain the wild right out of me.

She cleans my cage of suburban comforts
and visits when it�s feeding time,
but the call of the wild that�s inside me now
is stronger than this cage of mine.
So I bend the bars and break away
back to the mountains, back where I belong.

I�m home again, back in the mountains again
There�s nothing like this freedom.
I�m a wildman, a mountainman
No one can take the mountains away from me.

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Painting by Mary T. Hoffman - God's Creation in Art

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