Maudlin Days (Robocop)

Throwing out a thousand songs, just to craft the perfect one

A manifesto for our age but I got old and forgot what I meant to say

Like certain truths, I love humanity like you, it's just the people in this room

Make me question that one too, myself included

 

A cartoon, baby let me embarrass you saying things like

"We're complicit in the war crimes in Yemen, don't you see!?

This is it, the futures surely looking bleak, so baby ride it out with me

Woke austerity and then we'll die

Ah, the politics of love

 

Then you said something like "oh my god, you've figured it all out

up alone in your tower, but a smirk aint a smile"

And then I said, something dumb like that thought alone could curdle my blood

You took 29 laps, then I just jumped out

 

Stories of finding truth, wearing Givenchy tracksuits into an ayahuasca hut

And right on cue a drum fill starts to cut

To some "hey ho!" banjo charlatans who score the lives of yoga moms

And ads for celebrex that I could use

 

Yes it's true, I love russian authors too

"but which books do you like, the ones where it was cold and they all died?

Robocop, this ornery world view took me years to cultivate and cull

So come and smash it all with just one look

As you stick in the knife

 

And then you said something like "oh my god, you've figured it all out

up alone in your tower, but a smirk aint a smile"

And then I said, something dumb like, the thought alone, could curdle my blood

You took 29 laps, then I just jumped out

 

Well I don't know if it's enough to just say fuck it

Shut the doors, kill the lights, put down the phone you love

You came and took one look and said your maudlin days are done,

So you'd better learn to suffer, all we get is one another and then you die