Weekly Ludi #14

Weekly Ludi #14 is an OLD one from 20 years ago, from the Album Hell’s Laughter and Heaven’s Ache. It’s a somewhat sarcastic take on the notion of Progress (which, like evolution, increasingly seems to be bidirectional).

https://soundcloud.com/john-ludi/progress


So here we are all standing on the brink
a bible in one hand, in the other a drink
into diversion we joyously sink
cause it’ll be all right as long as we don’t think.

Some of us have some clever things to say,
but on reflection they sound bloodless, pale, and gray.
And why introspect when you’d rather play,
and save convictions for some other day?

(c) These pieces never fit, there’s a message we never get
when it comes right down to it.
It seems we don’t know much at all, it seems we don’t know much at all
So high to climb, so far to fall.
It seems we don’t know much at all.

Our own worst tendencies conspire in our fall
and throw us up against destinies wall.
And from their graves our ancestors call:
"Your world is so advanced it doesn’t work at all".

So keep the blindfold on, someone else will steer.
Despite appearances, there’s nothing to fear.
Life is beautiful, our future’s bright and clear,
just ask the Mayans (oh sorry, they’re not here).