The Knife Thrower's Daughter

Did your house have lions? Did your house have mice? Always something in the cupboard A window stuck with ice When your head hit the pillow Did your dreams come alive? Or in the dark, did you tremble Hoping to survive? You were promised sunbeams Ignoring all the science Looking up with awe at kings and queens and giants I'm not like you Did your house have lions? Did your house have mice? Were you clapped in irons At the roll of a dice? I'm not like you Me, I had nothing But I was living in a world Where nothing felt like something Something to behold I was never your Persephone Nor a moth to a flame But no one ever told me My skin was in your game Your daddy wrote the rulebook So you could break the rules We only had the good book Born-yesterday fools You're not like me Me, I had nothing But I was living in a world Where nothing felt like something Something to behold Nothing felt like something Something to behold Did your house have lions? Did your house have mice? Were you scared of the science? Were you trapped in a vice?