Birdwatching - Intellectual

[Verse 1]

Tragedy minus glory equals just another story

Like the prisoners that stayed behind in Plato's allegory

Or the poor forgotten second-last passenger pigeon

Anyone can fail but truly losing, takes ambition

I'm suspicious of ambitious folks, but I'll race you to the bottom

Where the clocks don't tick or tock

And you can smoke 'em if you got 'em

Carpe-ing every Diem's no achievement, it's exhausting

If you need me I'll be sitting over here, birdwatching

I've read The Sevеn Habits of Highly Ineffective Pеople

I know I'm probably the liver, not Prometheus or the eagle

But I'd rather be a giver than a taker or a faker

Everybody's just another paycheque to the undertaker

I have an allergy to strategy and inspirational quotations

My reaction's anaphylactic to vocations or to nations

I'm digging moats and burning flags, and bridges just as a precaution

If you need me, I'll be sitting on this island, birdwatching

There's a flower in the compost and a beach below the pavement

We'll outlive the rich and famous if we remain aimless and patient

We're neither rising like a phoenix nor are we dying like the dodos

Let's leave the endless questing to the Sams and to the Frodos

Anthems are anathema, enough with rousing choruses

And achieving is as torturous as tickling slow lorises

The search for more and better gives us worse and fewer options

So let's quit while we're behind, and do some birdwatching

Entrepreneurship is capsizing and it will surely sink

Jump and swim to Garbage Island, just sit and have a drink

While everybody else is busy polishing their coffins

We'll be mixing cosmopolitans, and birdwatching