Lyrics

Empty Child

Wonder crawls inside my head and takes a long winter’s nap
While they plunder
Canceling our travel plans and redesigning maps

But it’s all good
In total
Understood
Stay focused

Baked in the cake of bitter consequences we’re compelled to eat
So it begins
Belated hope of compromise that takes a back row seat

But it’s all good
In total
Understood
Stay focused

Don’t slip on your way up The Twelve-step Plan For Liars
Trumpeting your arrival so vile
Self-aggrandizement is wholesale
The hubris boys gone wild
Hocus pocus, no substance
Denial

Approval -- tantamount to treason when you separate wheat from chaff
In submission
Kissing rings of would-be kings -- we all designed the trap

But it’s all good
In total
Understood
Stay focused

Don’t slip on your way up The Twelve-step Plan For Liars
Trumpeting your arrival so vile
Self-aggrandizement is wholesale
The hubris boys gone wild
Hocus pocus, no substance
Denial

When your life’s not plum and beliefs are all in tatters
You must not succumb
Take heart
Take heart
Wait -- let the chips hit ground, for the axe is double-sided

What goes up will come down
And down
And down
And down

But it’s all good
In total
Understood
Stay focused

Don’t slip on your way up The Twelve-step Plan For Liars
Trumpeting your arrival so vile
Self-aggrandizement is wholesale
The hubris boys gone wild
Hocus pocus, no substance
Denial

See-through wiles
Empty child