Deadly Nightshade
Face it, friends, we stand complicit
Everybody plays the game
Illegit or plain illicit
Ethical, they're all the same
Truths are mere interpretations
Lies, what our opponent tells
Lowering our expectations
Ramping up the decibels
Reason has been accidentally
Atrophied and paralyzed
Rationale coincidentally
Beaten up and traumatised
Judgement, even comprehension
Previously commonplace
Merit not a single mention
On a modern database
Lost, and feared, disappeared
Where have all the flowers gone?
Indulge me, tell me something weird
That we can agree upon
Who has taken thinking captive?
How much ransom must we pay?
Nothing will be unattractive
Given what we see today
Even when we sense the slurry
Obstinately on the rise
Nobody will burn or bury
Authorised untruths and lies
Some will still believe in turning
Gilead to Paradise
Surely they are slowly learning
Always there will be a price
Constancy emerges, blinking
Stunned and almost at a loss
Time was when coherent thinking
Steadfastly would cut across
Now it tiptoes; downcast, dismayed
Naked, blinded by the sun
Fearful of the deadly nightshade
Fallen over everyone
Now it tiptoes, downcast, dismayed
Naked, blinded by the sun
Fearful in the deadly nightshade
Fallen over everyone
Everybody plays the game
Illegit or plain illicit
Ethical, they're all the same
Truths are mere interpretations
Lies, what our opponent tells
Lowering our expectations
Ramping up the decibels
Reason has been accidentally
Atrophied and paralyzed
Rationale coincidentally
Beaten up and traumatised
Judgement, even comprehension
Previously commonplace
Merit not a single mention
On a modern database
Lost, and feared, disappeared
Where have all the flowers gone?
Indulge me, tell me something weird
That we can agree upon
Who has taken thinking captive?
How much ransom must we pay?
Nothing will be unattractive
Given what we see today
Even when we sense the slurry
Obstinately on the rise
Nobody will burn or bury
Authorised untruths and lies
Some will still believe in turning
Gilead to Paradise
Surely they are slowly learning
Always there will be a price
Constancy emerges, blinking
Stunned and almost at a loss
Time was when coherent thinking
Steadfastly would cut across
Now it tiptoes; downcast, dismayed
Naked, blinded by the sun
Fearful of the deadly nightshade
Fallen over everyone
Now it tiptoes, downcast, dismayed
Naked, blinded by the sun
Fearful in the deadly nightshade
Fallen over everyone
Credits
Writer(s): Trevor Midgley
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