This one tries to scale the walls there not to bar
but to protect him,
and this one keeps alive and aligned
with ways that turn when you get near him (fear him).

This one's habit's harm that can come as safety
from a cure that ails him,
and this one has a form of defence that keeps him lost to what assails him,
fails him.

Even as a story in a song sung low,
I should be clear and you should hear
and know which isn't fiction.

If music is a form of defence,
this all should make perfect sense.
This one tries to scale the walls there not to bar
but to protect him,
and this one keeps alive and aligned
with ways that turn when you get near.

This one's habit's harm that can come as safety
from a cure that ails him,
and this one has a form of defence,
that keeps him lost …