Ballad Of The Dying Man Lyrics - Father John Misty

Naturally the dying man wonders to himself: 

Has commentary been more lucid than anybody else? 

And had he successively beaten back the rising tide 

Of idiots, dilettantes, and fools 

On his watch while he was alive 

Lord, just a little more time 

Oh, in no time at all 

This'll be the distant past 

Ooh 

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So says the dying man once I'm in the box 

Just think of all the overrated hacks running amok 

And all of the pretentious, ignorant voices that will go unchecked 

The homophobes, hipsters, and 1% 

The false feminists he'd managed to detect 

Oh, who will critique them once he's left? 

Oh, in no time at all 

This'll be the distant past 

What he'd give for one more day to rate and analyze 

The world made in his image as of yet 

To realize what a mess to leave behind 

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Eventually the dying man takes his final breath 

But first checks his news feed to see what he's 'bout to miss 

And it occurs to him a little late in the game 

We leave as clueless as we came 

For the rented heavens to the shadows in the cave 

We'll all be wrong someday 

Oh 

Oh 

Oh