Shadows in the amber night Disappear between the streetlights Now you see me Now you don't Separated from the flesh No warmth between the legs, inside the chest That is what you've taken for your own Boarded up my only home (take my face and name away : I become easier to hold beneath your thumb) Keep me from my friends and family Tell a more convenient history Don't let me get away (with having an identity) To have no marrow in my bones To have no shadow of my own “to be the young meat” : my body's not my own