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Ballad of the Dying Man Lyrics
Naturally the Dying Man wonders to himself
Had his commentary been more lucid than anybody else?
And had he successfully beaten back the rising tide
Of idiots, dilettantes and fools
That were on his watch
While he was alive
Lord, just a little more time
Oh, in no time at all this will be the distant past
So says the Dying Man once I'm in the box
Just think of all the overrated hacks running amok
And all the pretentious, ignorant voices that will go unchecked
The homophobes, hipsters and one percent
The false feminists he'd managed to detect
Who will critique them once he's left?
In no time at all this will 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 newsfeed to see what he's about to miss
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 one day
We'll all be wrong someday
Had his commentary been more lucid than anybody else?
And had he successfully beaten back the rising tide
Of idiots, dilettantes and fools
That were on his watch
While he was alive
Lord, just a little more time
Just think of all the overrated hacks running amok
And all the pretentious, ignorant voices that will go unchecked
The homophobes, hipsters and one percent
The false feminists he'd managed to detect
Who will critique them once he's left?
The world made in his image as of yet to realize
What a mess to leave behind
But first checks his newsfeed to see what he's about to miss
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 one day
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