All These Smarts by Mya Byrne Lyrics

All these smarts; nobody knows what’s going on
Try to tame the tide, you’ll find it’s much too strong
It’s hard to pick yourself up and move along
When you’re trained so well to stay where they think you belong

It’s a shame people don’t see what kind of shape we’re in
Spending days and nights caught up in arguin
Can’t see when wool is pulled, when sugar’s saccharin
When a fourteen-buck martini’s made of bathtub gin

All these smarts and no one seems to know
What’s for real and what’s just a talk show
They drink the tonic down, go with the flow
While the soap opera becomes the status quo

Press trades in distractions, all the news that fits
Yellow stuff about no-good reds and anarchists
Laws got changed to make us all antagonists
But we're so wound up we don’t see what’s gone amiss

All these smarts and folks don’t seem to care
Bout nothing except which starlet was caught in her underwear
But when your right to have a right is taken, laissez-faire
You’d be smart to see what’s going down right over there
All these smarts; nobody knows what’s going on
Try to tame the tide, you’ll find it’s much too strong
It’s hard to pick back up and move along
When you’re trained so well to stay where they say you belong