Mad World~ Gary Jules
I don’t follow the news (******GASPS***** )…Ever!…..Yes, I am not familiar with the current world affairs and I am not ashamed to admit it. It is not that I don’t wish to familiarise myself with subjects such as the world economy, infinite crisis plaguing countries left and right, political power play, technological breakthrough, the sleaze and breeze of the rich and famous I just don’t find the need to. Go ahead and judge me call me an ignorant little blank but that is the truth.
“All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow”
Why? why would I want to know about the thousands of galleons of oil spluttering across the mexican gulf coast? why do I want to know Bill Gates is now the 2nd not the 1st wealthiest man in the world? I don’t want to know which way the easterly winds are going to blow tonight and I definitely do not want to know about the japanese restaurant in Hong kong that has dancing robots serving Sabu Sabu.
“And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I’m dying
Are the best I’ve ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It’s a very, very
Mad World”
I am a cynic, that is my one and only problem. It is always the numbers, the millions and the billions, deaths canvassed as mere statistics, countries ranked high and low, nature raped and celebrated, the elderly sucked out of their living souls, children ruined of their innocence, animals either slaughtered or inducted to the ‘to be’, ‘already’ endangered, extinct list, civil wars raging in God forsaken countries or the % of people living below the poverty line, everyday the papers splash out lines that grab readers with alleged ‘Grave Issues’ and ‘Sordid Affairs’ both in the same tone. I am a cynic at least I make an excuse to be, justified or not, I choose to be isolated, unaware of all this circus, and my opinions are my own, like a cross to be carried. End of the day I don’t care about how many thousand galleons of oil is going to leak or has leaked into the gulf , or how crap their initial estimation of the damn fiasco was. All I want to know is how will someone plug the leak NOT TRY or GUESS but HOW and WHEN, not MAYBE or COULD BE I want to know about the WILL BE. I don’t give a toss about the experts sitting on their high horses suggesting and over analysing for the queen of england, I want to know WHO will? HOW will they? and by WHEN will they?… but hey who am I to ask? I am the bottom dweller who does not read the news remember?
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