The things you knew about music best to forget 'em now
So release the demons you harbor inside and let 'em out
And speed the weekend and come back to Monday only to remember that you spend your whole work week on the denim couch

Surrendering the Cheap Trick that comes with your Cracker Jacks
Calling 1989 to ask for all the rappers back
The regime of $$#ad committing the highest sin

While poli-sci students are sitting reading Leviathan
Bill Watterson carefully draws John and Thomas
While America falls in love with all of the little comics

Took a rope, refined it and made hemp from it
The rulebook of reality, he's exempt from it
!@%(yzing my lyrics with much fluidity

A parody, a cryptic tribute, or just stupidity
Could be any of the three, perhaps I oughta be
Deciding not to fit anywhere in the trichotomy


Chorus (Child Actor):
...to suffocate

You've got everything
Won't you laugh it in
You can run away (Valiant)

You won't get far (Valiant)
You can't get away (Valiant)
You won't get far (Valiant)

Let me in now
Let me in now


You could be royalty
Let me see the shining ring
Behind these palace walls you're climbing out

And we'll build our empire
And we'll build our empire
And we'll build our empire

Until the sun never sets up

Claiming to be valiant, systematically keeping them

Ignorant while CO2 reaches 400 PPM
It's strictly procedure, ma'am, don't make a fuss about it
Plenty of bipartisan support so you must allow it

They keep the buses crowded with commuters and consumers
Faces buried in their little glowing telephone computers
Wonder if they know how lit up their face looks

Wishing old acquaintances happy birthday on Facebook
Unnatural selection becoming the !@$* evolutis
And rapidly frowning no matter what the current mood is

Wondering if this is art like an elephant's painting
Very shocking and edgy and you can tell by the fainting
Devoting one couplet to try and balance rhymes

Like trying to find peace in Israel and Palestine
Lennon said he was the walrus, and then said it was Paul
and never clarified while Ringo was dead all along


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