The Quiet Parts

Listen, they said it before
Loud as a whale
Clear as a siren
Blunt as a cannonball
Listen, they're saying again
Sharp as a promise
Deep as the devil
All while you were

Sleeping well aware
That power poisons
And absolute consumes
Too late, they told you their names
And said just who they were
You should have believed them

Zealots are tugging the strings
Feeding the id and
Starving the ego
Choking the light right out
Soon as the quiet parts
Were trumpeted and bellowed
We should have listened then
Shored up to keep from

Drowning beneath the ugly
Tidal wave of
The true believers
Too late, they told you their names
And said just who they were
You should have believed them

Sleep, sleep well
Power poisons (well, oh, well), power poisons

Listen, they said it before
Loud as a whale
Clear as a siren
Blunt as a cannonball
Soon as the quiet parts
Were trumpeted and bellowed
We should have listened then
Shored up to keep from

Keep from, keep from
We should, we should have listened then
Shored
Keep from, keep from listening
We should, we should have listened then
Shored
Keep from, keep from listening
We should, we should have listened then
Shored
Keep from, keep from listening
We should, we should

Should have believed them