Jeffrey Lewis, The Voltage - Not Supposed To Be Wise (Bad Wiring ) lyrics

I guess we’re not supposed to be wise
If everything that learns also dies
It's a planet that just stumbles and cries
But I guess we're not supposed to be wise

Everything smart has gotta wash out to sea
To make new room for
Inexperience and stupidity
Everything alive had to vacate the path
For some new nitwit's like me
Who can barely do math
There's a billion sweet elders that
The Earth will reject
To greet a billion new jerks who
Don't know cause from effect
So everything is infinitely incompetent
And everything that's so confident
Is false confidence

But I guess we’re not supposed to be wise
If everything that learns also dies
It's a planet that just stumbles and cries
But I guess we're not supposed to be wise

A veil of illusion and silk
Sleeping thru a cold volcano of milk
It's a frustration when you enter or leave
A screaming nursery without a reprieve
Where no one turns to someone when
It just doesn’t wanna be
And then someone turns to no one
Such a stupid economy
Where everything is disparate to crawl
Out of the slime
And everything that happening is
For the first time

But I guess we’re not supposed to be wise
If everything that learns also dies
It's a planet that just stumbles and cries
But I guess we're not supposed to be wise

Why do they show up with
That look on their face?
Why do they leave just when
They can't be replaced?
Why throw in the garbage well
Trained artists and teachers?
And what's so important about
Some new stupid creatures?
There's a layer of biomass
Always churning and sifting
And in deference to ignorance
It's endless shifting
So why attempt to get experience when
Time and sense hates you?
Why attempt to get smarter when
That's a crime against nature?

Guess we’re not supposed to be wise
If everything that learns also dies
It's a planet that just stumbles and cries
But I guess we're not supposed to be wise