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Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride

from Trail Of Mars by John McDaid

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lyrics

Onscreen, offscreen
On the printed page
Everybody’s talkin'
Bout the problem of the age
It’s the death of wisdom
The debuff of expertise
The triumph of deception
That has us on our knees

Chorus
Buy the ticket, take the ride
Nothing really matters but the ending of the show
Buy the ticket, take the ride
And you’d better look out below

Heads up, heads off
It’s all a grim display
No one's even watching
It doesn’t matter anyway
It’s a slow train comin'
The return of the repressed
The final disposition
Of the gently dispossessed
Chorus

Nail gun, rail gun
Needle in your eye
Everybody’s runnin'
From what’s fallin' from the sky
It’s the Sixth Extinction
The Anthropocene
Forcing us to look at
All the things we wish we hadn't seen
Chorus

Fulbright, half-bright
Be as clever as you like
Everybody ends up
With their head on a spike
It’s the Dolce Vita
The Angst und Schrecken Tag
Dancing through Gehenna
In a bloody epilogue
Chorus

(spoken)
Gardyloo!

credits

from Trail Of Mars, released October 2, 2020
Bass: Craig Akin
Drums: Eric Parker
Guitar, vocal: John McDaid
Violin, vocal: Tracy Grammer

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John McDaid Portsmouth, Rhode Island

Award-winning science fiction writer, freelance journalist, folk/filk singer-songwriter.

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