The Askesis of Diogenes.

Yeah, we're literally writing songs about ancient Greek philosophers now.

https://iep.utm.edu/diogenes-of-sinope/

Drums, percussion, mixing: R Thomas

Guitars, Melodica, Bass, Vocal, MIDI, mixing: PS Perkins

The Poem: https://mystictapedeck.com/bards/the-cynic/

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LYRICS

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Adrift In a world that you can't comprehend

As you shuffle down sidewalks you used to defend

And pick through the garbage from parties you no longer attend

You know you're a stranger in still stranger lands

Where the crumbling monuments once used to stand

And they look at you funny when you ask them where to find an honest man

When you're gone, long, long gone

When they try to dismiss you, you piss on their shoes

As they fondle their falsehoods and call them the truth

If only the hunger in our bellies were so easily soothed

But you are not like them and you don't even try

No matter how rotten, you can't make them cry

You're as real as their shadows but they'll never understand why

Until you're gone, long, long gone

So you eat in the market and sleep in a hole

You drink from your hands now instead of a bowl

Stand naked before them to show how the years take their toll

And when the wild dogs come to nip at your legs

And the passing onlookers who expect you to beg

But your life was a promise and it's far too late now to renege

And then you're gone, long, long gone