Last of The Intellectual
OK Smart Guy
Who says a goat can’t have a good time?
Background
If you’re gonna be accused of being smug jerks, why not write a song as if you were? The best part is that you can’t tell if we’re joking or not.
- Darby
Lyrics
We are the last of the intellectual
We got grit
Determination
We are the last of the intellectual
We got style
Conversation
We are the last of the intellectual
Ain't got social
Indoctrination
We are the last of the intellectual
We are the last of the intellectual
The systemic pandemic
Of polemics is endemic
Of the ignorant
Adherents of social media
Man, it feeds on ya
For data mined
From each of ya
Ticks and tocks
Their stocks rising
As current events keep surprising
Those whose lives among the perpetual mirrors
Has, evidently, made nothing clearer than
Presumed pervasiveness of
Their own ideas
The pressure's been mounting
to join the celebration
of powerful lies and disinformation
The phone screens ignite
The army of the self-righteous unite
Tempers are untempered
with calls for social sedition
My senses accosted
My empathy exhausted
Spent the last dime
Now just feeling haunted
So grab up your gun
The battle's not won
forget about your kids and their childhood fun
Gotta win that war before it's begun
I've had enough
I'm all done