Best of the Century

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Ricky’s had that dream again
He’s getting dragged out in the street
All his contemporaries there with him
staring down their mortality

Yeah they wanna see his documents
They got word he’s harbouring
Criterion box sets, surplus laureates
The best of the century

Well he’s sick of the permission slips
And all these nouns he’s not allowed
He’s seen the all best minds get dressed
Cos it’s getting kinda bitter out

But he could take these beta ‘flakes
They don’t have the sand
Man they’re barely graduated outta eating Clag Well the best of the century bled
Now their cred is in his hands

And then he’s fleeing through Villa Borghese
Where they pour one out for free expression
And all the people cheer him, green lit to spin
Thriller and Ignition at their weddings
In this light you could mistake him
For Carlin, the way there’s no cow too sacred well Can’t say he never left you anything

He can hear them closing in on him
He pulls the L-pill from his teeth
They mean to stifle him, sever him
Like he’s some limb that’s atrophied
All these known unknowns have got momentum up
Like a steel ball through the window of a Tesla truck
What’s up with these zealots
Don’t they know how to have a laugh?

Then he sees a marketplace of ideas
Glowing in the Piss Christ amber of the morning Where the parrot isn’t dead it’s fine-tuning
A tight five that don’t care about your feelings
Where there’s maps to meaning chiselled in the ceiling
And they play Manhattan on loop
And he’s the ’53 Margaux
Of never really knowing how to read a room

And aloft on their shoulders, acquitted —
Small praise for just saying what everyone’s thinking well
You can’t say we never left you anything

Sheets tangled forehead glistening
Lean in and you can hear him whispering
Can’t say we never left you anything
Best of the Century

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from Precision Auto, released June 21, 2022

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