Clearer

If you have a message boy speak after the tone
Leave a final raspberry on an answering machine
Staring into an abyss that's staring into you
Never chase a monster or you might become one too

And children now become the orphan fathers of their sons
Shouting out their counter-revolutionary songs
Stop the boats, they like to say, and letter the winners drown
You're the wicked worst of the West, the whitest of thе brown

Wegovy and Ozempic, OxyContin, Percocеt
Violence foundational, brute aristocrat
When the going gets tough the tough get going
When the sea gets rough the slaves start rowing
Speak after the tone, it's getting clearer

Puncturing your body with those scary great tattoos
Scarification is a form of self-abuse
Kissproof little puff adder, a lunk in combat gear
And every woman is a taxi who already has a fare

Sad to say the murderer's the pop star of today
Staggering ever worstward ho singing "Let's accelerate!"
Roman or Christian, priest or wicked witch
From the lion's point of view it doesn't matter which is which

Wegovy and Ozempic, OxyContin, Percocet
Violence foundational, brute aristocrat
When the going gets tough the tough get going
When the sea gets rough the slaves start rowing
Speak after the tone, it's getting clearer and clearer

Attracted to the zone where the cracks start to appear
Yiddish and Arabic no longer spoken here
Arthur goes to Abyssinia, once a poet
Now an arms dealer

Wegovy and Ozempic, OxyContin, Percocet
Violence foundational, brute aristocrat
When the going gets tough the tough get going
When the sea gets rough the slaves start rowing
Speak after the tone, it's getting clearer