
Date of issue: 06.04.2017
Song language: English
Ballad of the Dying Man |
Naturally the dying man wonders to himself: |
Has commentary been more lucid than anybody else? |
And had he successfully beaten back the rising tide |
Of idiots, dilettantes, and fools |
On his watch while he was alive |
Lord, just a little more time |
Oh, in no time at all |
This’ll be the distant past, ooh |
So says the dying man once I’m in the box |
Just think of all the overrated hacks running amok |
And all of the pretentious, ignorant voices that will go unchecked |
The homophobes, hipsters, and one percent |
The false feminists he’d managed to detect |
Oh, who will critique them once he’s left? |
Oh, in no time at all |
This’ll be the distant past |
What he’d give for one more day to rate and analyze |
The world made in his image as of yet to realize |
What a mess to leave behind |
Eventually the dying man takes his final breath |
But first checks his news feed to see what he’s 'bout to miss |
And it occurs to him a little late in the game |
We leave as clueless as we came |
From the rented heavens to the shadows in the cave |
We’ll all be wrong someday |
Oh, oh, oh |
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