Weltschmerz - Fish

Please let me introduce myself I’m simply a man of our time

Confused and bewildered I seem to live without reason nor rhyme

Betrayed by a system I’d given up trying to change

Let me tell you now for nothing, I’m back in the game

I’ve gorged on the knowledge feasted on the digital feed

I’ve discerned through my wisdom that all cannot be believed

I’ve reached the conclusion that we have all been deceived

And that our freedoms and democracy are not what they seem

Weltschmerz, weltschmerz, weltschmerz

I am a grey bearded warrior, a poet of no mean acclaim

My words are my weapons that I proffer with disdain

My melancholy aspect is something you can’t disregard

My motives you cannot question nor my strong sense of right and wrong

I’ve formed the opinion that things can’t stay as they are

My anger and my fury trapped like a wasp in a jar

It’s never too late to make a brave new start

When the revolution is called I will play my part

Weltschmerz weltschmerz, weltschmerz

There was a time my moral compass was spinning out of control

I retired from the barricades, dug myself a very deep hole

I came to in a country I once considered a home

That has been lost to the scoundrels and the rogues and a circus of clowns

The heavens roll thunder, I raise my face to the rain

With my feet in cold ashes of all that remains

If we’d listened to the children and heeded their call

Risen to the challenge at an earlier bell

The fight isn’t over, this war still has to be won

On an unlevel playing field the conflicts rage on

Stand up to be counted, stand up to be heard

Stand up at the barricades stand up for your world

Weltschmerz — the homeless and starving

Weltschmerz — the bombed and the burnt

Weltschmerz — the poor and the lonely

Weltschmerz — the forgotten and spurned

The shells of cathedrals, the yellowing grass

The plum dark tornadoes, fluttering flags

The queues at the foodbanks, the raging typhoons

The gangs on the corner, the shadows that groom

The fading of dahlias, the forests of fire

The walls in the desert

The rapture is near