Ballad Of An Incel

from The Dream Of The Shepherd by Kenny Hoffman

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True insight is always disappointing
Meaning lies in conflict
Seek no resolution
I woke up on the wrong side
of the new world order
These rotten institutions

I would sooner sin than suffer
the consequences of misrule
A killer asks a hangman for mercy
The hangman tips the stool

I live in an ancient part of town
where the people are a thousand years old
They speak in Babylonian riddles
and their teeth look like headstones

Brooms fly with no witches on them
Clean air is imported and sold
I’ve never once been moved by a painting
I’m downwardly mobile

Why did Pharaoh hang the baker?
I was born and raised in a rental manger

Love me
I’m ugly
A murder victim makes a recovery

I would sooner sin than suffer
for the sins of my father
After the last supper
table sales shot up

In a conference room named heaven above Vatican City
The word of god is decided by a committee

Debate me
Berate me
Find it in your heart to date me

Discourse
Remorse
A marriage that ends in divorce

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from The Dream Of The Shepherd, released May 4, 2021
Words and music by Kenny Hoffman

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