Indictment
24 Hour Revenge Therapy LP/CD
I just wrote the dumbest song.
It won't bother me,
It'll be a happy song,
They're colossal.
There are times for being dumb.
It says many things
It means nothing. Selling kids to other kids.
It's gonna be a sing along.
All our friends will clap and sing.
Our enemies will laugh and be pointing.
what the thoughtless are thinking.
I am more concerned
with what we're drinking.
They'll laugh about it at the warehouse,
saying I'm so lame.
It wrote itself,
you can keep the blame.
not unlike some other ones.
While everyone's depressed and broke,
I get high off your sick jokes. (Ha, ha, ha.)
They're tousling
all the worried hair.
Stay up there.
So crazy it just might work.
Then we'll quit our jobs.
We could be
the next group that you rob.
This must be one of them.
I'd like to know what's so wrong,
with a stupid happy song?
in its nothingness.
It gives me space to think, I guess.
To think less. And less. And less. And less.
Moving units and tracking charts.
Will they ever learn?
It isn't who you know,
it's who you burn.
If you think we changed our tune, I hope we did.
Notes:
Blake introduced the song as "Scathing Indictment of the
Pop Industry" in some 1992 and 1993 performances.
In an early 1992 version, Blake sings "Yeah, we're real concerned. You would think by now they would have learned" instead of "Will they ever learn? It isn't who you know, it's who you burn."
In some 1996 shows, Blake changes "Will they ever learn?" to "Will we ever learn?"