Funny Old New World
Here's some middle english for you scholars of renown
Cave drawings of antiquity and artifacts I've found
It's still the middle ages, we're medieval boys and girls
It's a funny old new world
The King is in his castle and the queen's gone underground
Everyone admires the plague which rages all around
They're banking on insurance and they're claiming force majeure
It's a funny old new world
The fabelled Tower Of Babel, well, they got it off the ground
When the pope's creative then there's always cash around
Presuming you can talk the talk, they'll make you Duke Of Earl
It's a funny old new world
From Homer to The Simpsons, they've kept us entertained
With things that seem to others to be simple or inane
One day it was John Milton and the next it's Milton Berle
It's a funny old new world
The futile system's still a joke, the witches still get ducked
Cash has changed to credit now, they'll never stop the buck
Jesus said 'I'll take the gold and you can keep the myrrh'
It's a funny old new world
The crusades never finished cos there's always someone more
Who will not see it our way til they've lost the holy war
It used to take one hundred years, now it happens in a blur
It's a funny old new world
Call me optimistic but I think we're near the end
Perchance the renaissance is not too far around the bend
So bring on the Medicis, the Borgias and their Botticelli girls
It's a funny old new world
Cave drawings of antiquity and artifacts I've found
It's still the middle ages, we're medieval boys and girls
It's a funny old new world
The King is in his castle and the queen's gone underground
Everyone admires the plague which rages all around
They're banking on insurance and they're claiming force majeure
It's a funny old new world
The fabelled Tower Of Babel, well, they got it off the ground
When the pope's creative then there's always cash around
Presuming you can talk the talk, they'll make you Duke Of Earl
It's a funny old new world
From Homer to The Simpsons, they've kept us entertained
With things that seem to others to be simple or inane
One day it was John Milton and the next it's Milton Berle
It's a funny old new world
The futile system's still a joke, the witches still get ducked
Cash has changed to credit now, they'll never stop the buck
Jesus said 'I'll take the gold and you can keep the myrrh'
It's a funny old new world
The crusades never finished cos there's always someone more
Who will not see it our way til they've lost the holy war
It used to take one hundred years, now it happens in a blur
It's a funny old new world
Call me optimistic but I think we're near the end
Perchance the renaissance is not too far around the bend
So bring on the Medicis, the Borgias and their Botticelli girls
It's a funny old new world
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