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Man of the Hour

from Nowhere Fast by Kyp Harness

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MAN OF THE HOUR

You finally made it
You finally made the grade, and
Everybody’s sayin’
You’re the man of the hour

Reporters were sent in,
They praised and documented
The fame that you cemented
On your rise to power

You’re well-read, well-bred, and so well-fed
What you can’t remember you have chose to forget
You are the hero of a million dreams
You are the face on all the magazines

You live inside a mansion
Of gold and steel and iron
With a thousand hired servants
Who tell you you’re the king

You eat the finest dinners
With your teeth all made of silver
And each night your wife and children
Come and kiss your diamond ring

You were born torn with greed and the will to succeed
You’ve crawled on your knees just to get what you need
You’ve lived by the rules and you’ve paid all your dues
Now every mother’s child wants to be like you

And it makes me wonder
It really makes me wonder
Why you want to
Take your rifle from the cupboard
And blow your brains all over the carpet
That’s worth fifty thousand dollars
On the open market
You’re the man of the hour

You fly in your jet plane
Around the world and back again
Conferring with the presidents
And all the heads of state

You make fabulous donations
To the charity organizations
Which try to aid the devastations
Which you yourself create

You have earned great fame and you’ve taken great pains
To minimize your losses and maximize your pains
Loved and adored by the bustling crowd
Bowing at your feet they beg for you to show them how

You have made solid investments
In all the finest weapons
To stock up the defences
Of the countries wide and far

And when your find your profits fallin’
You just have to call them all and
Say “Come on, get on the ball and
Start another war”

In every high-class household of the lands that you command
Everybody loves you, they all want to shake your hand
When you were young you were under someone’s thumb
But now you don’t have to answer to anyone

And it makes me wonder
It really makes me wonder
Why you want to
Take your rifle from the cupboard
And blow your brains
All over the carpet
That’s worth fifty thousand dollars
On the open market
You’re the man of the hour

Now you zoom across the continent
To be honoured by the government
Who erects another monument
Dedicated to your name

Renowned for all your skill in
All the dealings of your business
If you can’t buy it you just kill it
And market the remains

Protected by your guards with their trigger-finger aim
And all your hired flunkies who you pay to take the blame
Who’d have ever thought that a little farmer’s son
Would wind up on page one?

Now you sit inside your mansion
With a magnum of champagne, and
Faraway from all the dangers
And the strangers of the night

When a sudden flashing vision
Comes across your television
What can it be but your reflection
Glowing with a ghastly light?

You’ve raced and you’ve chased up the ladders of success
With the eyes of the world upon your every breath
All you ever wanted was a little bit of wealth
But now you’re a law unto yourself

And it makes me wonder
It really makes me wonder
Why you want to
Take your rifle from the cupboard
And blow your brains
All over the carpet
That’s worth fifty thousand dollars
On the open market
You’re the man of the hour

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from Nowhere Fast, released October 13, 2014

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