The fable was a vehicle of truth
(how to learn from your mistakes),
but the idea so golden
the lesson was forgotten right when you began it.
Armed with an industrious mind
and no imagination,
we will end up just like
the people on Lingo, people on Lingo...
See, now we've built the Model T.
There's no escape! It's already started!
It's a plague on wheels.
Imminent future! Fate is impending!
Ideas were just badges on Earth.
Their content didn't matter,
but there was money to be made.
The lesson was forgotten right when you began it.
Kago was innocent enough,
and the allegory was apt,
but he did not know that
we are not immune to passing ideas.
It's a plague on wheels.
Imminent future! Fate is impending!
It's a plague on wheels.
Imminent future! Fate is impending!
There's no escape, it's already started!
credits
from Lingo-Three,
track released July 27, 2007
All sounds by Henry Van Loon
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