"when the night closes around you

you're sure that something's there

you can see or smell or touch it

but you feel it in the air

You walk back to your room

all the while looking behind

That's the animal inside you

That's the animal mind

a darkened street before you

headphones in your ears

in the corner of your eye there's movement

you turn to see more clear

a racoon stares up at you

and you're frightened blind

that's the animal inside you

that's the animal mind

when you're logic fails you

and your senses grow

the universe impales you

on a tower made of i don't know

you're fast asleep and dreaming

of some long forsaken place

the door to your room is opened

and you come rushing back through time and space

an enemy to be defeated

a lover being soft and kind

that's the animal inside you

that's the animal mind

there's no window and no doorway

in this room and i'm all alone

not a soul to talk to

in my mind a high pitched drone

as i pace and i lose perspective

one human being confined

i am the animal inside me

i am the animal mind

you can't fight what you're made of

evolution's slow

and you will always be afraid of

that tower made of i don't know"