Great Big Party
Welcome…to the great big party/happening at the end of the world!
Come as you are! Be yourself!
(Or a duller version of someone else)
Tell your story to the other billions
Who are telling their story too
They’re doing them you’re doing you
Grab a drink have a smoke
Share a story tell a joke
Say a prayer throw a curse
Is it getting better or getting worse?
Sing your song open your heart
You’ve been expected from the start
………At the great big party, happening at the end of the world
Now I’m circulating I’m Working the crowd
It’s hard to be heard the volcano’s getting loud
People are dancing they’re Showing off their stuff
Others so disturbed they’re threatening to get rough
I’m out on the margins heading back to the middle
The scientists are showing up still working on the riddle
bombs are going off now left right and center
Everyone salute our new tormentor
Folks are showing pictures of their cats and their dogs
What they had for dinner and the length of their jogs
I thought I was too old to hang with this crew
But when I look around I’m not as old as you
But we’re all ancient now this close to the end
From out the mouths of babes the future portends
It’s the end of the world we used to know
Now is the time it’s time to let go
We’re bowing down now, to the God we made
waiting like chickens for a spinning blade
I should have stayed at home or hid away from it all
But when there’s this many people you’re gonna get a call
The preachers and prophets are here in force
new and old age gurus are giving their discourse
Terrance McKenna said he saw it all coming
The past the now the future all being summoned to
I’m styling myself as a purveyor of rhyme
Maybe I should dress up as the Lord of time
Who’s got the inclination to decipher this verse
My words are for myself for better or worse
When was the last time a song changed your life?
I guess it happens sometimes when the time is right
But it’s all just background noise against the wonder of the night
From the cavemen to Shakespeare and everyone in between
You’re gonna have to be someone if you wanna be seen
I wandered round the garden to see the fireflies and stars
The party goes on without me I may as well be on Mars
The brakes are off now it’s gonna collide
All the naysayers got no place to hide
Everything that ever was and all that’s yet to be
All right here right now at this great big party
I’m checking back later saying hi to old friends
Throw out an opinion on the latest trends
We all get along save a fight or two
Can’t think why I came here except to look for you
Everybody’s present in this virtual sphere
Billions of chattering minds and they’re all in here
All peoples in one place right here on my screen
Armageddon got nothing on this gathering
Even the ancestors are showing up for this
Anxious to witness the agony and bliss
I could name names I’ve dropped a few
But I’m all out of time and so are you
I’ve been trying to trace it back to how it all started
But I was overwhelmed by this great big party
Deep fakes swamping me it’s a lifetime overload
There is no handsome prince just an ugly toad
I’m making life and death decisions for the good of my soul
Dealing with some demons who are out of control
I’m doomscrolling all of my life away
Hanging with a beast who’s got a lot to say
The lid’s off the box every mind spewing thoughts
And every thought is stored in one’s and naught’s
We got so distracted by our own reflection
Now we’re fully primed for mass deception
Who’s running this show, old Father time?
Or some decrepit beneficiary of generations of crime?
Some dark cabal of vampires sucking out our lives?
Or unknown unseen forces from intergalactic dives?
Well what if some big bomb’s gonna blow out our lights
We’ll be drinking from the creek, and seeing stars at night
There’s gonna be some things that we may never know
I’m happy that I made it to the end of the show