You might be saying it has been a long day
I'm here thinking it could have been longer

Twenty four seven might be your idea of heaven but
I'm thinking it should have been longer.

Plenty of time to be tired
when you're wired up to the grid
and they only want to be rid of you
and
plenty of time to save yourself

ah
to hell with them

you gotta get out there and yell at them
and tell them
it should have been longer.

Of course
when you've killed all the demons that bedevilled you
what is there left to do but to find more demons.

And this human condition is just one more tradition to keep,
those monsters we make to take the place of the monsters we **** are the same.

We're all connected by indeterminate fears
we fall together in the circles of our tears
and rise to do it again.

The safest place that one can be
is
where sharks can't see me,

mind you,
there's not much to do
and you don't get much fun
unless you count
counting the pebbles
and
and
no! that's it
counting pebbles
waiting for the inevitable

the tide will come in
the sharks will grin
and we'll all be on the menu.

He
tramps off into the distance
waiting for a miracle
conversing with the Oracle
his hair is getting long.

Babylon not gone
it
comes on
in the second act.

They try to tell the truth here
give or take a year
drop another tear
it doesn't matter.

We are complicit
we can't acknowledge it
but we're guilty all the same.

tired and I'm trying to tell you
that this
will never be behind you
you will always look out on
the things that you never did,

More **** on Facebook
don't believe me
take a look.

this happened
this would
do you think
that this could?

***
fake news
but you choose
to reel it in.

I'm right
they're right
we're all right
we might be.

makes me think
there's more truth in the drink
and I will drink to that.

They're putting out the lights
doing away with Human Rights
cockin' a deaf 'un
to the sound of the gun
and
turning a blind eye
to the bombs from the sky.

Wasn't it always so
that the men with the money
sit and watch it grow,
safe in the knowledge
that power and privilege
are protecting them.