The Joke - The Arrivals

Thinking back on Catholic school, the pleasure I’d avoid

Taught sex a precious treasure, not a thing to be enjoyed

I’m a fool and I’m a sinner, oh, the dignity destroyed

It’s amazing that I’m standing here at all

Now thinking of the parents who will misinform their kids

Raise them as consumers, just to set them on the skids

Lie about a moral that with their generation fled

It’s amazing that we’re standing here at all

Now thinking of a government with a promise to be fair

A right for common people and a means to pay their share

When I look into the mirror, the promise isn’t there

It’s amazing that we’re standing here at all

Now thinking of the memories and the music that we’ll share

The twinkling of the starlight and the movement of the air

To know that we’ll be dead someday and someone might have cared

It’s amazing that we’re standing here at all

Dang