Lyrics

Schopenhauer's Blues (Everybody Passes By)
(Words and Music By Andy Hill)
Poor little boy peeking through a crack in the door
The only mouths well-fed are circling overhead
The victor in every man's war
Only the young can live in the future
Only the old can live in a brightened past
But Arthur's down in the present, tense
On a globe in ruins
So vast and microscopic
But he will not stop it
He says

How long, how long indifferent God and why?
Do you give a damn or are your heavens blind?
I'm asking your opinion
'Cause here in our dominion
Everybody looks and passes by

No friend in the world in that infinity between one and none
Lookin' over the chip on his shoulder
Arthur beware of your mom!
She sent you tumblin' down the stairs
Counting her mounting affairs with the objectivity of Hamlet
But she's a brain dead one-armed go-go dancer
compared to you
And Arthur you found the answer, damn it!
(what was the question?)
You say

Colleagues parade through the sacred halls of the scholar
On bended knees they pray to the God almighty dollar
And leave the world
Leave the world
Leave the world
Leave the world
With interest compounded
As wicked as they found it

How long, how long indifferent God and why?
Really, do you give a damn or are you simply blind?
I'm asking your opinion
'Cause here in our dominion
Colleges, their books and classes
Conservative and liberal masses
Everybody looks and passes by