The Cheese Stands Alone - Echolyn

I’ve been Banana’d, Cabaret’d, stuffed in a truck for days

Leathered out, flannel’d in, paid to play, thought we’d win

The talent show that would break the band

Wrote the words that hit the fan

Flogged and prog’d, revival’d to death

Released and reviewed and signed with the best!

Leave me out, I’ve had my fill

Stand on my own, I’ve been through it all

I’ve been AOR’d, alternadised, heavy-metal'd, acousticised

Pickled to an amber hue and never lied to me or you

To get ahead or create a vibe, for sympathy to romanticize

How hard it is to rock 'n roll

To be a pawn or gain control

It seems that lately we’ve become quite the target

Dodging verbal traffic, oh the fun of it

Our job is now writing, performing, and enduring

And I’d have to be lying if I denied loving it (shake it down)

I love it, I eat it, I starve it then I feed it

It spins my head and moves my toes

You can smell the beat it tickles my nose

It fills my gut and gets my goat

It sinks my ship and floats my boat

Don’t let it take you out too far

Or change the you, you really are

Step up and see the band

Play favorites from one night stands

A resume of four golden years

When the cheese stood alone

So heigh-ho the dairy-o

I’m tickled pink and don’t you know

To love the things we plant and grow

Is a treasure hard to find

Looking back my credit was never shaky

I may have burned a few bridges here and there

Looking back I’ve seen the serpent and his offer

The weasel in his hole, the leech on the wound

The sly old cat wants the rat

The rat he aims to please

But back and forth they never see

The cheese stands alone

So heigh-ho the dairy-o

I’m tickled pink and don’t you know

To love the things we plant and grow

Is a treasure hard to find

Looking back I can’t help but look forward

There’s so much life, there’s so much more

Everyone has so much to offer

You’re crazy to ignore it, you’re crazy not to try