Everything Must Go

We've really done it now
The understatement of the year
The last one we have here
It couldn't be much worse

We shamed all the pessimists
Threw out their book and wrote our own
Ignored the doom and gave out
Pieces of the throne

The pontiff rang the bell
Sent out a warning to the
Hell underneath his anarchic beliefs
As a group planned his demise

There's a long list of monikers
Adopted solely to divide
All the pundits plead the fifth
For what they once advised

And all along
The burning riverbeds
I can hear the same four songs
Lamenting what comes next
I don't want to do this but I
Think it's for the best
The man online said I just need some rest

This town is underrun
Torn apart at every seam
The signs in shops make my stomach drop
They say "everything must go"

But since I've been practising
Getting my steps in while I can
Been taking the process back to
Where it all began

Hold my breath and count to ten
Draw a dotted line in chalk
Two steps forward and one step back
Raise a shaky fist to knock
In the doorway you stand with a face
That says "oh, don't you dare"
So my lips stay sealed
All my eyes can do is stare

I did not want to say goodbye
To this place in this way
There's always always always nothing
You can do about it
A million ways
A million times
I was reminded
I was reminded
I did nothing
I did nothing
I did nothing
I did nothing

Oh you glare at me again
"I'd prefer to leave it all unsaid"
But there are so many things
I wish I didn't do

We watched the last of it fall apart
In high-res 4K bliss
Abandoned by our arbiter
Four-year thimblerig
A nomad king
A pop-up shop for
Selling off old plans
Absolved his command
We saw it all first-hand
And still don't understand