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Hope by and by, hope by and by —

Motes in the eye, portcullis is shut…

A skull isn’t much

Of a c-c-castle to live in

When I know that the change is going to come

The change has got to come

Explosions in the brain attest to it

Evolution down the drain —

Let all the rest do it

Oh yeah, the only result

Is cumulative drek

It won’t be the drug

It won’t be the sex

It’s got to be the Faculty X

Looking for a method, I play a straight bat

Throw away the chances to slip

Yeah, you talk about the average —

I don’t care about that

And my words are only giving me lip

When I know that the change has got to come

The change has got to come

Or what am I living for?

Or why am I here?

I’m running, I give in more

Far away from the near

Go meta-physical world

The sign that protects

It wasn’t the last

It won’t be the next

It’s Faculty X

Reading seers, sages, prophets, obscurantist tracts

Draining the elixir to the dregs;

Active yeast in the bottom is on the attack

And it leaves me without any legs to stand on

Still I hope that the change will come

Meanwhile I don’t know

I think I’ll have to go

Go for the governing body

My consciousness elects

It won’t be so clear

It won’t be direct

It’s all that I fear

It’s all I suspect

And I’ll disappear in Faculty X

I pluck all these characters out of thin air

I push them down into the lungs;

I infuse them with meaning as much as I dare

Stretch out for the shoreline and wait for the wave…

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