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Modern Aristotle

from The Sloth Cycle (Volume 1) by Sloth Metropolis

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The tastes of wine and good times lit up the Sloth’s fuzzy wee mind, leading him through streets with wide-eye wonder. He and Owen laughed and capered, ran, danced and elbowed, swaggered and gibbered. But then, when the sheen of novelty dulled, something clicked and the Sloth sobered.

He saw a load of have-nots not having all over the shop, all over the shop-floors, and the shop windows washed white and empty. Grey grizzled faces shrivelled, polyester cups for spare coppers, scrapped cars and tag marks tarring forbidden sidestreets, and everywhere the sound of bright sparking genius squandered, fading and fizzling. Why? Why the long faces and short change? To the Sloth, it all seemed strange.

Seven billion people and there’s no one to blame
Some say there’s seventy million getting all of the gain
Well that may be true, but can you explain
How a spot of happy camping will blow them away?
How will it blow them away?

Modern Aristotle on the minimum wage
Einstein mind on gyro day
The next Van Gogh on a work scheme forced
To clean up the shit from the toilet floors
But shrinking prophits are a thing of the past
And Jobbie's cult is growing fast
They're waiting in a queue for a shade of grey
And a permanent holiday

There's a shark in the suit of a man from the west
Sipping his tea the way that he knows best
The water is infested wherever he's invested
The rest is filled with his victims digested
Lucy, watch out for Mr Diamond
Sharks don't Barc, dead dogs Lay silent
At the rates he's going he's going to turn violent
Lift up the rigging and we're on our way

Seven billion people and there’s no one to blame?
It seems there’s one or two who won’t play fair at the game
I’m not sure what, but I’m left in no doubt
That we need some new ideas to figure it out
We’ve got to figure it out

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from The Sloth Cycle (Volume 1), released August 8, 2014

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SLOTH METROPOLIS is a musical mythology & ongoing sloth-themed rock opera told in prog, psych, folk and paper mache.

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