Paperweights - Intellectual

[Verse 1: John Schmersal]

Some expired emergency

The pleas broke off with another cough

But isn't-isn't just the worse we're told or

Wickedness starts by remote control oh-oh-oh

A penny lost for your thoughts

A penny crushed in the steel wheel

But get it right

The helpless sound of all that matters

Arrested in such fabled pains

Habits form in such a helpless shield from

Greater force that will not yield oh-oh-oh

You kicked the dog

And then didn't think it'd bite

You'd keep it wrong

And you'd never make it right

You bid the world on an auction you won't buy

And everyone thinks the talent's better

Help this sound of all this matter

Amend this cult of fatal fates

Is any interest in the words unspoken

Buried in thoughts under paperweights? Oh-oh-oh

Ten gallons in a hat you stole

Isn't this chugging two lumps of coal?

As the goals don't resonate

Ingenuity's wasting, innovating

A wad of gum that you planted in the cracks

Give to the world and it never paid you back

You're just a runner in a race that made you black

And everyone thinks the talent's better

You kicked the dog

And then didn't think it'd bite

You'd keep it wrong

And you'd never make it right

You're just a runner in the race that made you black

And everyone thinks the talent's better

You bid the world on an auction you won't buy

And everyone thinks the talent's better