Richard II or Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Soon you'll be burning orphanages down Watching ashes scattering all over town And when the smoke gets too close to the ground You'll see blue trampling over gray and green over brown
And you'll be cutting ears off of dead men Pumping shells into the carcass for hours on end And you'll swear that we've always been friends And be unable to conceive it could ever happen again
Of course you have never been to blame For the various horrible things that you did You may have gotten away with them too, if not for those meddling kids The lump in your throat, the ache in your bones They are nobody's fault but your own
And whatever amount you paid For your many distractions, well it was too much Oh, and at the end of the day To whatever extent that you hate yourself, it isn't enough
And we can no longer afford Waiting for someone to lift this terrible swift sword In our basements we all look so bored We've never seen the glory of the coming of the lord
There will be parties, there will be fun There'll be tall gallows for everyone And we will all be sleeping easy upon the sinking of the sun But there's only one dream that I hold close And it's the one of my hand at your throat
And I will not deny my humanity I will be rolling in it like a pig in feces 'Cause there's no other integrity In awaiting the demise of our species
May you endure every indignity Knowing all the while that life will go on And when it is that you have nothing to say except that it took too long And may I be there somehow Asking "where are all of your friends now?"