Algernon You won't need these flowers They've revoked the horrors Your tragedy Now ends happily And I'm sure that they won't be done Till they fenced off the ledges And rounded the edges Of all that goes wrong For you, Algernon Gone are the days where you're endlessly racing Towards Pavlov's reward Now your maze is replaced by the locked door You asked for Oh-oh That's the way that it goes I'm sorry you'll never be free If all that you see is the danger the cage will relieve And oh-no That's the path that you chose A true hedonist indeed So don't lift a finger, your warden provides all you'll need But never a key Oh But never a key Oh ♪ Algernon You're wound up too tightly So frayed and unsightly Pulling on your own strings You're unravelling How can a cure now be found? With no outside threat, just a fire in your chest And you're melting, all over everything Oh-oh That's the way that it goes I'm sorry you'll never be free If all that you see is the danger the cage will relieve And oh-no That's the path that you chose A true hedonist indeed So don't lift a finger, your warden provides all you'll need But never a key Oh But never a key Oh But never a key Oh But never a key Oh But never a key Oh (But never a key) But never a key