One of Them Years

Well, sit atop a mountain

Listen with a soup can

In the south, he's not a liar

Just the leader of a bad band

That in Europe get together

And in secret praise the people

My grandad fought in the lowlands

At the Scheldt, got shot to pieces

So they could rehash their allegiance

To a national convenience

That preys on easy difference

You know fear, it's just a weakness

And yeah, it's been one of them years

The poor they're there to pity

But only from a distance

Pull on your tender heart strings

The price of an every day existence

Emma Lazarus was wrong

Fuck your teeming huddled parasitics

Somehow, kids from Nicaragua

Well, they're invading West Virginia

Maybe they're looking for Ollie North

Maybe what you got, you get it in you

I seem to remember things that mattered

That no longer count as anything

And yeah, it's been one of them years

Oh, the sea ain't really rising, baby

You're just getting shorter

Never mind the science

Them vaccinations cause dysphoria

And them pictures of the planet

Are doctored so it looks like

A place akin to heaven

But only from a distance

Nobody likes your headscarf

But they wear masks in the resistance

Either way, forget the answers

Since we've perfected pointing fingers

And yeah, it's been one of them years

You can only fool the people

The other half the time we're sleeping

So that's pretty much the bag

And bag men never want for reasons

So drinks are on the house 'cause the house always wins

And baby, you know that I've wasted a lot of time

A lot of time just thinking

When thinking's overrated

Compared to reactionary blinking

So I'm just sitting here reflecting

On the things I could've done