Friday, 14 July 2023

#1291 - wake up!


 


1291

15.vii.23

4.197

wake up!

 

fuck the anti-vaxers, kick ‘em in the head

… let them burn in hell

         – popular tune from the early twenties

 

 

wake up!

that’s what they’re saying

 

take a look in the mirror

take a look out

 

none so blind

as those won’t see

none so fervent

as a convert

 

lift the shackles

raise up that sheep dog wool

cut the fringe

 

stop dreaming

 

the rooftops are shouting

I’m begging you too

 

alarms are going off

left right and centre

 

we’re leaving those damned experts in charge

we’re sleepwalking into a lottery win

 

every day more are born into sleep

some are no trouble at all

some say it’s the waking ought to worry us

 

it’s hard to know who to believe

 

trust over the fence

or someone who knows?

 

can you trust yourself?

it’s a gamble

 

what if some evil Cartesian demon?

 

do you know how your engine goes?

or what makes the weather?

 

know better than those give their lives to find out?

 

you just have to take the dice for a roll

 

wake up those sleepy scientists

they’ve fallen into their own beakers

nobody understands what they’ve said  

 

speak in little whispers

why should I wear a mask?

 

don’t tell me what…

 

it’s my body

 

Socrates says ‘hands on heads’

but can you really tell?

 

get your social contract off

I’m going to live in a cave

 

what were they thinking?

what are you thinking?

 

I say and my enemy says too

 

what am I thinking now?

 

it’s as if they’d come from life

 

who will we trust?

 

wake up

 

we need to shake em

need a whip crack cattle prod

need a knockout blow just about now

 

kick behind just in case

 

this is how I whistle you up

 

wake up wake up

it’s just a nightmare

 

it’s just me again

 

dream parliament

 

don’t be afraid of all the world’s coal

 

I’m shouting in my sleep









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