Baba Brinkman - Last Days lyrics
[Baba Brinkman - Last Days lyrics]
I feel my words add up to one thing
And that’s nothing
I’m struggling and searching
I’m verbal axe-juggling
Stumbling and lurching, my syntax troubling
I'm Busting verses
Trying to capture something
Subtle about the rapture
And passionate suffering
Attached to the cluttered path
Of cash coveting
Corruption contaminates the task of governing
Consumption demands massive gas guzzling
With hands tied up in the act of ass-covering
Above I see the sword of Damocles hovering
Assassins set to dispatch another king
As the pendulum swings
Feel the plastic smothering
Sending some scuttling back
Under mother’s wing others stand muttering
Watching sand crumbling
Castles come crashing to land
Their plans tumbling
I can’t help wondering how
The dream was killed
It's like the frame was built weak
But it seemed so real
I blame myself and accept the shame and guilt
For being a training-wheel
Out to gain the skills
To play the game well and
Chase fame and wealth
The same as everyone else yeah
It strained my health
To remain in the filth, but the pains I felt
Didn’t move me to action
And plus I knew this would happen
But this stupid attraction
To hubristic passions
Grew, and through attachment I flew
Into a trap and couldn’t clue into the fact
Of the illusion’s enchantment
Until I sat on the ruins
Of the last human advancement
A loon laughing alone in
A thousand-room mansion with computers, fax
And phones used to grow food plants in
The last bastion, what remains of humanity
Madness rages in a string of profanity
All that’s left of an age of insane vanity
Condensed into one case of vain insanity
I scream and complain to
The rainforest canopy
My name and DNA chain aborts, vanishing
As animals watch the last
Corpse from Titanic sink
The planet thinks: "Finally, man is extinct"
And begins replenishing all
The damaging things that we did with our
Hands while micromanaging
Now we’re back to the last
Days of weapon brandishing
When we still have a chance to
Change come back from the brink
And cancel that command on the satellite link
It’s like
The battles of right-wing fascist militants
Remind me of mankind’s past irrelevance
You can wipe us all out
Like Florida brown pelicans
And it won’t necessarily spell the
End of mental elegance
We feel these evolutionary arrogant elements
But as long as there’s still chimps
Dolphins and elephants
Or any mammal animal with
Strands of intelligence
Language and culture eventually
Will swell again i can’t tell you when
But I know it’s possible
So let’s drop the bull:
This show is stoppable but all in all I’d
Rather outgrow the obstacles
Than start all over from
Go that’s so illogical
For us to make progress, though
The soul has got to flow
And soldiers have got to slow
Down and start talkin’ peace
Part of the problem seems to
Be with corporate greed
But they’re all just people with
Kids they got to feed
Lost in a colossal sea of private property
And can’t see the forest for the trees
Just frogs asleep
In a pot of deep water, boiling hotter
Soil erosion problems, oil and slaughter
Destroy and prosper, spoil and conquer
Enjoy it while it lasts, boys
It won't be much longer
And that’s nothing
I’m struggling and searching
I’m verbal axe-juggling
Stumbling and lurching, my syntax troubling
I'm Busting verses
Trying to capture something
Subtle about the rapture
And passionate suffering
Attached to the cluttered path
Of cash coveting
Corruption contaminates the task of governing
Consumption demands massive gas guzzling
With hands tied up in the act of ass-covering
Above I see the sword of Damocles hovering
Assassins set to dispatch another king
As the pendulum swings
Feel the plastic smothering
Sending some scuttling back
Under mother’s wing others stand muttering
Watching sand crumbling
Castles come crashing to land
Their plans tumbling
I can’t help wondering how
The dream was killed
It's like the frame was built weak
But it seemed so real
I blame myself and accept the shame and guilt
For being a training-wheel
Out to gain the skills
To play the game well and
Chase fame and wealth
The same as everyone else yeah
It strained my health
To remain in the filth, but the pains I felt
Didn’t move me to action
And plus I knew this would happen
But this stupid attraction
To hubristic passions
Grew, and through attachment I flew
Into a trap and couldn’t clue into the fact
Of the illusion’s enchantment
Until I sat on the ruins
Of the last human advancement
A loon laughing alone in
A thousand-room mansion with computers, fax
And phones used to grow food plants in
The last bastion, what remains of humanity
Madness rages in a string of profanity
All that’s left of an age of insane vanity
Condensed into one case of vain insanity
I scream and complain to
The rainforest canopy
My name and DNA chain aborts, vanishing
As animals watch the last
Corpse from Titanic sink
The planet thinks: "Finally, man is extinct"
And begins replenishing all
The damaging things that we did with our
Hands while micromanaging
Now we’re back to the last
Days of weapon brandishing
When we still have a chance to
Change come back from the brink
And cancel that command on the satellite link
It’s like
The battles of right-wing fascist militants
Remind me of mankind’s past irrelevance
You can wipe us all out
Like Florida brown pelicans
And it won’t necessarily spell the
End of mental elegance
We feel these evolutionary arrogant elements
But as long as there’s still chimps
Dolphins and elephants
Or any mammal animal with
Strands of intelligence
Language and culture eventually
Will swell again i can’t tell you when
But I know it’s possible
So let’s drop the bull:
This show is stoppable but all in all I’d
Rather outgrow the obstacles
Than start all over from
Go that’s so illogical
For us to make progress, though
The soul has got to flow
And soldiers have got to slow
Down and start talkin’ peace
Part of the problem seems to
Be with corporate greed
But they’re all just people with
Kids they got to feed
Lost in a colossal sea of private property
And can’t see the forest for the trees
Just frogs asleep
In a pot of deep water, boiling hotter
Soil erosion problems, oil and slaughter
Destroy and prosper, spoil and conquer
Enjoy it while it lasts, boys
It won't be much longer