Venus Fly Lyrics

Little fly, don't you die so easy

I know you only live a day

Weathered by the winds so high and breezy

Don't you let this evening slip away

Little legs hatch from eggs each morning

Silhouettes hardly ever change

Stomach begs the musky dregs adorning

For a taste of something new and strange

Oh, open up your eyes

Can't you see you're falling for the Venus Fly?

Oh, won't you tell me why

You keep living like you're never gonna die?

Little speck, don't you wreck your wingspan

The beating of which gives to you your name

Keep in check below your neck for things can

So easily be plucked upon your frame

Spiders crawling forest walls you've thwarted

You circumvent the snatch of froggy tongue

The birds who call from perches tall you've shorted

But on this fang you let yourself be hung?

Oh, open up your eyes

Can't you see you're falling for the Venus Fly?

Oh, won't you tell me why

You keep living like you're never gonna die?

Never gonna die

Don't you know that it's a lie?

You were only passing by for a try, another high,

Now the jaws will never pry

"Come and play," you hear it say so sweetly

Nothing else had ever been so bold

But where you lay it's had its way discreetly

With all the rest who never grew so old

The same disease that lures the bees to pollen

Pulls you where no free thing should involve

In the squeeze of this the tease you've fallen

Now to feel your body be dissolved

Oh, open up your eyes

Can't you see you're falling for the Venus Fly?

Oh, won't you tell me why

You keep living like you're never gonna die?

Never gonna die

Don't you know that it's a lie?

You were only passing by for a try, another high,

Now the jaws will never pry