Paean To The Enlightenment Lyrics - Good Riddance

My line falls out tempting providence 

One more dime spent on the fence 

As you mourn the wretch of innocence lost 

True lies and surrogates 

Room, board and benefits 

Boardrooms make breeding grounds 

For selfish bastards anyhow 

And the grace that we really live for 

Are the sacrifices made 

Protracted and betrayed 

Enough to suffer 

How many rats will tip the scales 

Of failing finance 

How many brave and able men will be lost at sea 

Who dares to complicate 

and the retaliate 

Renouncing tolerance of everything they see 

Follow like sheep 

a face in the crowd 

a good team player 

give me blood 

give me truth 

Its what we came for 

The frayed myth of enlightenment 

Is a supposition 

If you believe 

Smith wrote anything but fiction