Jason Orbaum – Smart

Jason Orbaum – Smart Lyrics

Artist: Jason Orbaum
Song: Smart

There was a time before
A little after the war
When the finest minds
Would have the deepest war

We would celebrate
The things they told us to hate
And there were many things to keep us smart
They closed the libraries

And gave us cable TV
They gave us people who know nothing, the celebrities
They gave us sugary food
Drugs to regulate our mood

And they took all the things that make us smart
Keep me out of the stupid
Keep me out of the dark
Sell me into enlightenment

Let me disembark
Just give us Stephen Hawking
Give us Aaron Sorkin
Give us Dolly Parton singing

David Attenborough talking
Give us Allen Moore
Give us Radio 4
Just give us anything that keeps us smart

Give us the Hitchhiker’s Guide
Give us Stephen Fry
Give us everybody else involved in making Q.I
Give us the V&A

Give us highway way
Give us everything that makes us smart
Leave me out of your tweeting
Leave me out of your trends

Sell me into the sanity
Of my family and friends
Give us novels to forage
Harri Seldon’s knowledge

Give us Lyra when she’s setting off from Jordon College
Give us Gorky Park
Give us Officer Clark
Give us anything that keeps us smart

Give us Slaughterhouse-Five
Tarantino’s vibes
Give us Londonderry, Gormenghast, and under his eye
Give us Vernon Shaw

Give us Michael Moore
Give us everything that makes us smart
-Break-
Give us some chunks to throw in ways we never dreamt of before

A college of enlightenment and music and more
Lead us deep into temptation through that beautiful door
Give us anything to keeps us smart
Give us oranges and cookware

Give us twenty-two catches
Give us Morrison, Milligan and {?}
Give us Sylvia Plath
Give us Tolstoy and Kafka

And anything that keeps us smart
Give us Rinehart’s dice
Winterfell’s ice
Give me Frank Sinatra singing

That they named it twice
Give us Frodo’s journey
Give us birds and Ernie
Give us anything to keeps us smart

So I guess in conclusion
We’re expecting confusion
And an evergrowing incidence of self-delusion
So we’ll all complain

Inside our echo chambers
And there’s nothing left to keep us smart
Just give me Stephen Hawking
Give me Aaron Sorkin

Dolly Parton singing
Give me David Attenborough talking
Give us Allen Moore
Give us Radio 4

Give us anything that keeps us smart
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From the album:
Walk Wit Me [Explicit]
Release Year: 1996