Firebrand - Telethon

Godspeed

Deliver us from listicles and NBC

Help me make sense without pretense

Tell me what to think

I need something to call it

Heard the people shout

Found creative ways to isolate, and block ‘em all out

My echo chamber as close a comfort as it was before

Surrounded by the discharge

I tap around.

Life’s not so hard

The outside struggle justifies

My want, my need to stay inside

Goddamn!

Why

Can’t we just file it all away

Tired of seeing the ticker talking End of Days

I’ll tell you all about it

Pundits paid to shout

Politicians and papers wring the mystery out

Alarmists stay in work regardless

If theyre worth their salt

Headlines shared on timelines squared

Heap and tower to the umpteenth power

Afraid to peer, I sneak it still

Afraid of my peers, a lot I will

Shut out from the firing squad, the fight

I’m trying to keep it light

Might’ve missed the plot entirely

Something doesn’t feel right

Not sure we’ll ever have hindsight

We watched it all whiz by

Fold your hands, beg the sky for advice

God lingers

Can’t help wondering if we gave it the finger

If we hung it up mid-sentence or just let it ring

Come on forget about it

Stopped the shouting

Now it’s back and worse than ever

I’m beginning to doubt it’s

Meant to stop.

Whatever.

I’m so tired.

would you let me idle?

Today I gassed my car up

First time In… a long long time

Stared right at the highway entry sign

Figured probably not much left out there to find

Don’t tell me the truth

While I’m sitting here existing

What folks around me call resisting, tell em that’s my

Business;

to mind the party lines

The ‘we're fucked' and the ‘we're fines'

Pick a side, pick suicide or something to rely on

Temporarily!

We misplaced our rationality!

But it pulled back in the docks

When the hands on the clock

Stopped ticking to nothing

And Fate had been bluffing

A perfect excuse to revert to our cues

Of course that’s how it

That must be how it

That’s how our story ends

THE END