Gladhander - Stripmall Architecture

They say he’s a good talker

Smiling glad hander

Confident door knocker

And he will get his way today

And you are behind the scenes

In the bowels of machines

And he is the face of things

And he will get his way today

It’s a symbiotic thing

You’d have to dry swampy palms to make a deal

And you don’t really want it that way

Or so he tells you

You are the engineer

You are the scientist

And he is the face of this

And this is what you want, isn’t it?

And now you don’t have to try

You’ve been infantalized

Out of the public eye

And this is what you want, isn’t it?

As their expectations wane

And you shimmer like hot concrete in the sun

And it seems that you never could change

That’s when you have to

I say you have to

And you say nothing