Name: The Complacent Song
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Description: A song about someone too caught up in the flow of their own life to care much about the tidal forces that are at work changing his/her world. Basically a song about 99.999999999% of humanity.

The Complacent Song

from Hell's Laughter and Heaven's Ache by John Ludi

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A song about someone too caught up in the flow of their own life to care much about the tidal forces that are at work changing his/her world. Basically a song about 99.999999999% of humanity.

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THE COMPLACENT SONG

Open the blinds, tell me, what's that sound?
Never mind...pass the wine, I'm to be found
casting about aimlessly as those waves do rise,
whistling a happy tune to greet our demise.

For my part I think I'll get something to eat.
It would take more than a holocaust to get me to leave my seat.
I'm just another consumer watching Eden turn to hell,
so don't ask me to be the one to ask "Hey Nero, what's that smell?"

(c) Who are you calling complacent, haven't I done my fair share?
I don't need to make statements and by the way, I don't care.
I go to work every day, my taxes I pay, so leave me alone and go away.

Close my eyes and go to sleep, it's all the same.
Thinking's too hard and I'm too tired and I'm not to blame
for whatever happens, it's the system...it's not me, and I'll be ok as long as I still have my beer and my TV.

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from Hell's Laughter and Heaven's Ache, released January 1, 2001

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John Ludi Madison, Wisconsin

John Ludi is a musician/singer-songwriter with a wide array of influences and lyrical interests who was "Indie" before the term even existed. Working outside of the music industry by choice has given Ludi the ability to release songs of a level of lyrical depth that are anathema to the minds of the "suits". Ludi lives off-grid in a yurt in the woods of WI and will "fight the power" til he dies. ... more

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