Benjamin Adair Murphy

Let’s make a king
Yeah, let’s make a king
Let’s tie our hands down to the tracks
Let’s make the world look flat
Let’s cut the tongues before they ever learn to sing
Let’s burn the homes to warm our hands
Plant our flags on foreign lands
Let’s leave the fingers and take the rings

Let’s make a king
Let’s make a king

We’ll let’s keep one alive to tell the tale
Let’s lock the doors with nails
Let’s let the necks all snap and let those bodies swing
Let’s turn away from all we had before
‘Cause we’ve been promised so much more
And I just can’t wait to see what this day brings

Let’s make a king
Let’s make a king

Let's shine a single beam of light
Shine it right up into the sky
Let's make a man into the law of the land
And raise him up on high
Let us praise our lord and our savior
And call the votes all in our favor
And anyway they never really meant a thing
Let's break the unions and choke the schools
Give the press a few hard rules
And then the birds will sing on the bright and blessed spring

Let’s make a king
Let’s make a king

Well, Evil said to Stupid
You look like you could use a friend
And Stupid says that’s great
I ain't had me one of them
Then stupid said to Evil
How does this friendship work?
And Evil says it’s easy you just stick your head down in the dirt
So stupid dug a hole and stuck his head down in the sand
And Evil had free reign to carry out his wicked plans

Well, Evil saw that Stupid was truly stupid and he had time
To tear the world apart and split the people into tribes
He said that war can have a winner
And that greed is not a sin
And a man can judge another man by the color if his skin
And all the while Stupid sat while the world burned to the ground
Thinking gee well ain't it nice to have a friend around

Well, Stupid opened his eyes one day and saw that he'd been tricked
The rich had all grown richer while the poor all took a hit
Then his friends were all in jail
And he'd lost all of his rights
And the people were divided
And the earth wasn't even fit for life
And he wanted to go back
But by then it was too late
Because stupid followed Evil
And there was nowhere to escape

How are we doing on time?
Is there room for one more song?
Can we stay up here in the lights?
Or will management move us along?
We’ve been crying our hearts out to everyone here
We’ve been crying to everyone gone
And that's all well and fine
But how are we doing on time?

How are we doing on time?
Is there time for one more kiss?
Can we just stay right here in bed?
Or have you made up a whole list?
Of things to get done
Of things to work out
Like what's yours and what's mine
There’s so much to do
But how are we doing on time?

There a cry in the distance
A break in the chain
A light that keeps blinking
For the fire brigade
There's a bridge that's washed out
but we just blew right through all the signs

How are we doing on time?
Can we live here until we grow old?
Can we stay here under this roof?
Or has the whole house been sold?
All I want is my child to have what I had
And to breath under the blue sky
But there's all of this weather
How are we doing on time?

There's all of this weather now
How are we doing on time?