Potentially there's no safety    Inside these walls, I'm forced to be       Unprotected to cruelty    I'm not at my own mercy       The most important time in my life    Is governed by an unstable mind       On another I depend    My own life I can't defend       Will I survive?    To see the day arrive    When I am cast forth    And endangered nevermore       Incarcerated and force-fed    Your disparity a constant threat       Are you qualified to reign?    Is my destruction pre-ordained?       I am not a parasite    Will I be punished by your spite?       I await my destiny    And possibly your enmity       Will I survive?    To see the day arrive    When I am cast forth    And endangered nevermore       Completely under your dominion    I'm not here of my own volition, no       Will I survive?    To see the day arrive    When I am cast forth    And endangered nevermore       I'm locked away, a nonentity    Sacrificed by antipathy       My pleas aren't heard    So I'm tortured       It's perilous in this domain    And I'm dead if I remain       I pray that you    Don't cause my doom...       Will I survive?    To see the day arrive    When I am cast forth    And endangered nevermore