Simple X - Andrew Bird

Some people wake up on Monday mornings

Barring maelstroms and red flag warnings

With no explosions and no surprises

Perform a series of exercises

Hold your fire

Take your place around an open fire

Before your neurons declare a crisis

Before your trace Serotonin rises

Before you’re reading, your coffee grounds

And before a pundit could make a sound

And before you’re reading your list of vices

Perform the simplest exercises

So here we are at the end, the war is over

There’s nothing left to defend, no cliffs of dover

So let us put down our pens and this concludes the test

Our minds are scattered about from hell to breakfast