Lyrics

Baba

From Speaker’s Corner
To New York’s Washington Square
Everybody, everybody everywhere
Got solutions to it all
Me I’m mystified
How’d we get so smart this day?
How did we realize?

I t was the blue shirted boys
From the local conservatory
Making medicine with a minor celebrity
Talking up a storm as they paint it white ‘n black
Genesis reborn if we could only turn the clock back

And Baba he says “Come with me”
Do what I do, see what I see
Baba he cries “Close your eyes”
It ain’t a lie if everybody lies

Don’t confuse me with the evidence
Or bore me with the facts
‘Cos I got ‘em on the back foot, I’m leading the attack
He might look like an elephant, I might look like a freak
But he’s stealing from the working man
And subjugate the weak
And that’s you, that’s me

Now I feel like I’m a child who’ll never grow up
I feel my hope is distended, I think I’m stuck
Feeling lightweight and pointless, wishful, guilless
Guilty with the truth
It’s a holiday I’ve been looking for
Since I’ve been watching you
Keep feeding me placebos tell me it’s a panacea
It’s like watching last night’s TV the morning after
Just get me out of here

Baba he says “Come with me, do what I, do sees what I see”
Baba he says “I’m the only one”
Take him with you, he is my son
Baba he croons his schadenfreude
Scripted lines in celluloid