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Not bubbling over?

Power and the gold, the gold and the power
Minute after minute, hour after hour
Everybody's hunting, all of them soving and urgin'
What's going on in the market, they don't check out the sturgeon
They say I gotta lay still, I've got to let them pass
my face beneath the flounder, I feel a breeze all the way to my- fool
They can't understand it, how did I get a way
There's a tug round a pulley, and I start to float
Dropped hard on a deck of a big merchant boat
Turn round quick cause I'm wary
Stare into the eyes of Captain Benarry

Look at the situation they got me in
I can't live a normal life, I was raised in a bowl
So I'm forced to listen to their criminal schemes
From the edge of a pretty prison without any seams
I'm an educated fool with the ocean on my mind
Got some sharp coral in my hand and a gleam in my eye
I'm a locked-in siren set banging on the glass
And then one day the Pathfinders came, salvation at last
But death ain't nothing but a dry heartbeat away,
I'm being flounced through a desert, what can I say
It's hour 23 now, but will I live to see 24
The way things are going I don't know

"Aspis (Aquarium) Paradise" (featuring Mr. Z)
With apologies to Coolio (and Weird Al).

As I swim through the fake castle in the shadow of Turmen
I take a look at my life and realize there's nothing left
'Cause I've been splashing and laughing so long,
Even my papa surely thinks that I am far gone
I haven't ever crossed the glass of the cage since I was put here
Treated like a koi, paraded out for parties and the odd sight-seer
'You better watch how you're swimming and what you're singing
Or you might find yourself on a hook a'swinging'
I really can't be tripped, but I have to laugh
As they practice misdirection, I see myself in their reflection
I'm the kinda girl the scheming merchants wanna own outright
On my fins in the night saying prayers to be left alone in the moonlight