New Age Tricks

Oh consensus, Papa Sis and your mother

The explorers got it wrong

There ain't nothing to discover

You can show me the door but I ain't leaving

I got new age tricks just beyond conceiving

Everybody's got a past

You want to share it like a present

Don't think you're in a caste

But you're nothing but a peasant

Now pointless digressions

And deathbed confessions

Just new age tricks and old time obsessions

Lizzie had seen a lot

But she didn't know what she was in for

Cause the last rodeo didn't go like all the others before

And she wished that she would disappear

And she wished that she would go

There's certain new age tricks even she didn't know

So defenseless in the arms of a new mistress

He could scarcely make the gesture

He could hardly protect the witness

Say he went crazy or absent without a reason

Or pulled some new age trick he had hidden in his sleeve

No one even asks him why he did testify in

No one's hiring so why are you even applying?

They drove him all the way downtown just to bail you out

Those new age tricks couldn't even save you now