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KeepAnEyeOut 08/15/19 1:08:33 AM #33: | [Verse 1] We don't write letters any more There ain't the time or place But a friend of mine wrote something Like a letter yesterday It was smuggled through my inbox Just this morning, 3:00am More impotent than important Let me read it now, verbatim He says, I got that same old feeling The one that turns the birds to brutes The sky is like a bad dream And the earth is in cahoots I don't believe no one no more I don't care what no one says I just want to make the world A much less painful place And we look fonder on the good old days As they drift further away But why, if everyone feels so homesick Are they always setting sail? 'Cause it's all bad news up there on deck And each headland masks the next I'd just as soon dive in the ocean And forgo the blood and sweat And forgo all aspirations They just put everyone at odds If idle hands are the Devil's work Then where's the time for God's? Oh, yeah [Chorus] Why write a letter that you'll never send Away? (Why won't you) Stay with me, wait and see And all you need know Nobody's perfect and their needs are always stark (Stay with me) Wait, you'll see And all you need know Everybody's hurting and their needs are always stark (Stay with me) Stay with me [Verse 2] And who cares about wars of choice and lands Where states indulge their passions? And all the new shoots just jack boot scoot All dissent, out of fashion Like Fred Astaires at a film premiere That is all about them It's stirring stuff, transformative They don't care where they're sent And they're all kiss-chasing childish dreams Of a privileged masculinity 'Til they're spent by shock and discharged home To small towns and big cities And the rest of the type left are dying or dead From just trying to be useful They been handy in the years gone by And they'll be handy in the future And who cares for their survival? And who cares about the Yanks? Who cares if they get overrun By Chinese nukes and tanks? And who cares about the Holocaust? Man, we didn't learn nothing there And all its memory does Is keep the History Channel on air And who cares about that Vatican? Man, everybody knows And who's surprised they went and chose A Nazi for a Pope? And who cares about fakes like anarchists? Man, they never want to dance Let's mambo Mogadishu Give anarchy a chance I'm saying life is cruel, you know it's true But all sides still try to recruit ya For Shangri-Las as practical As doing a Karma Sutra [Chorus] [Verse 3] And who cares if the starving millions Know it's Christmas or your birthday? Or what movie stars in Africa or The guy from U2 says? Or all the statesmen never telling lies As truth or gospel? Who cares what's true or false? The truth's the world won't go to hospital But who needs to live forever? And who needs the extra miles? We won't need bees or seed banks In the Arctic for a while We play the game to start again Not to better life for all It's the appropriate opiate When the better way's impossible Some honesty now wouldn't go astray And if not, well, what's the use? We're animals, we can't help doing What all animals do So goodbye, my friend, I'm hitting send Forgive me talking straight I'm only trying to make the world A much less painful place [Outro] And why write a letter that you'll never send Away? Away? Away? Away? Away? --- "I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it." - Dame Edith Sitwell ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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