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Fast and Lucky

from Hummingbird by Sticks Calliope

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Call this one the brother of Milk and Honey. They're both riffing on the promised land. Think of them as the pharaoh's kids, diverged.

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Once you were a young man, living in a desert, doing hard time, say they kept you wandering for 40 years!
Living in a tent city underneath a golden calf, trying to push your tablets on the financiers.
Said you’re gonna change the world, but that was then, and now you’re knee deep in sand saying baby I don’t know where I am!

It’s a much bigger world than you thought,
You aint stupid, you’re just brilliantly wrong
Now folks say you’ve been leading them on with all you white tower talk

You aint looking so big now kid
They can set you aside like a toy
These young politicos don’t flinch unless you’re bleeding money,
you’d better part a sea or something cause –

Boy, you aint so fast and lucky now

Once you were the dumbest chubby rich kid floating down a river in a bad time straight into the arms of the king
Ivy-league miseducated, first-world winner, you were Type A and white, already smirking at the world from your crib.
Now you’re eating cat food straight outta the can, you got a pocket full of food stamps, on a corner selling it

It’s a dirtier world than you thought,
These suits all say that they’re concerned, that’s how you know that they’re not,
You were so cocksure coming down the mountain, thought you knew it all, but you’re just starting to get taught.

You aint looking so big now kid
You and the strays out making a plan
While all these well-coiffed CFOs, sipping Manhattans, they practice looking bored and ask you, cousin, how’s the promised land?
You aint looking so big now kid!
Yeah they can set you aside like a toy
These young politicos don’t flinch unless you’re bleeding money,
you’d better part a sea or something cause –

Boy you aint so fast and lucky now

And when you get caught by your age
Start talking like your daddy did
Cause you got a wife and thou shalt make wage
To keep the house and raise your good Egyptian kids

You ain’t looking so big now, no
They can set you aside like a toy
These young politicos don’t flinch unless you’re bleeding money, on fire, start a war or something cause

Boy, you aint so fast and lucky now.

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from Hummingbird, released September 3, 2012

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