Idiot Express

I'm supposedly a learned man from a school of higher thought

But I pawned off my integrity, and look at what I bought

A ticket for a single seat on a train that won't progress

I'm just one of many guests on the Idiot Express

I'm seated next to Alice, who's life has been obscene

domestic death is what she left by the station's pop machine

She earned herself a scholarship for total lack of depth

the committee was impressed on the Idiot Express

Malcontents and martyrs navigate the rails

their inherent sense to trust pretense guides and never fails

as we're all somebody's pieces in this twisted game of chess

that's not something we address on the Idiot Express

I applied with highest hopes I'd pass their standard test

"Are you stupid and naive?" they asked, and to that I acquiesced

they were satisfied, I got a ride on the Idiot Express

So I'll ride through life with Alice, sedated in our bliss

pathetic, paranoid and proud, we're thankful to subsist

She spills her juice at dinner, and I drool on my vest

but we're happy more less, on the Idiot Express

All Aboard