We’re living in the Dark Ages
No one understands the way it is
When you live in a technological renaissance
And the people ignore pink elephants
I don’t have the nearest notion
Far like Iraq, deep like the ocean
When everyone (except for me)
Endorses positivity
Let’s take a trip across the world
I want to be your favorite girl
No one likes the things I say
There isn’t any other way
The time it was that just began
Away with me, don’t hold my hand
In every joke a grain of truth
And every time, and fleeting youth
The people there they live their life
In times of trial and genocide
The wars not over, it’s just begun
But I’m not telling anyone
Who’s to say that I’m not crazy
I have the time if you’ll just pay me
The Internet and all I know
Is just a fucking picture show
When you watch the drama unfold
Remember how the world is cold
There isn’t really any other
The drugs to try, the lies to cover
You know that I will see it through
And who’s to say that it’s untrue
There isn’t any acquiescence
When nothing really makes much sense
It goes on and on and on and on
They all love him, he wrote a song
The things that we appreciate
In time they do depreciate
We say what we say
They all go away
We make pretty sounds
What’s lost is not found
I’m trying to pay attention
To the plot of mad men
In two thousand fourteen
All was not what it seemed.
Cover art: The Ghent Altarpiece (interior view) by Hubert and Jan van Eyck, painted 1432. Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium. Early Netherland-ish painting often included complicated iconography, and art historians have debated the “hidden symbolism” of works by artists like Hubert and Jan van Eyck. (Wikipedia)
Elizabeth de Moya lives near San Diego, CA. She volunteers for the birds, and she works at the zoo. She is going back to school to study pre veterinary medicine. She has a BA in Linguistics from UC Berkeley.