They sit up there on Gridlock Hill, in their ivory towers Dead elephant in the room While down below, you know Uncle Vinny's still on the ventilator And his third-shift nurse, her relief can never come too soon It's a strange sensation When the hypernormalisation makes us think we can't see the difference between the wheat and the chaff But I did the math on a broken abacus Crunched some numbers with alabaster knuckles Only to find the bottom line expired sometime in late July Well, I... I'd do it for you Will you do it for me? We hate to see you go And now I hate to say it's so: We're not messin' around How I hate to say it's so: We're not messin' around So, now the insurance company's calling to say The payment on your premium's due today And if you can't get it to 'em, well, hmm... too bad For a minute there, you thought they might actually care 'Cause you recall seeing on their site somewhere a message about how they're opposed to racism, and all that It's a strange sensation When that brutal wave of mutilation crashes a little bit harder and a whole lot longer each year We feel the fear, as a reckoning approaches The line is severed, and the net's eroded So who will hold it, when the wheel is frozen and the captain's too stoned to notice it? Well, I'd do it for you Will you do it for me? We hate to see you go And now I hate to say it's so: We're not messin' around How I hate to say it's so: We're not messin' around I'd do it for you Will you do it for me? We hate to see you go And now I hate to say it's so: We're not messin' around How I hate to say it's so: We're not messin' around