from the 2007 album 'Coming Home to Stay'. Sooner or Later we're gonna get Wise...

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"Folks: It's time to evolve ideas. You know, evolution didn't end with us growing thumbs. You do know that, right? Didn't end there. We're at the point, now, where we're going to have to evolve ideas. The reason the world is so f#cked up is we're undergoing evolution. And the reason our institutions, our traditional religions, are all crumbling, is because … they're no longer relevant. They're no longer RELEVANT. So it's time for us to create a neeew philosophy and perhaps even a new religion, you seeee. And that's okaay... 'cause that's our right, 'cause we are Free Children of God with minds who can imagine anything, and that's :-P *kind of our role*." - Bill Hicks (1961–1994 r.i.p.)

Bill didn't inspire this song, but his rant above is definitely in the same conceptual area.

Sooner or Later
James Hollingsworth © 07/09/2003

When you look around the World
It's hard to imagine how things are gonna get better
Without feeling like an idealistic fool
Who's gone and traded dreams
For what's right before his eyes
Who sooner or later, has got to get Wise

And the troubles that we face
That time and time again come back to haunt us
With the feeling that we've all been here before
And we've gone and fallen for
The same old themes and lies
But sooner or later, we're gonna get Wise

Look again at all the questions
That we answered in whatever way we could
Without being in possession of the facts
Settling for Chimeras
Blockages that won't let truth arise
But sooner or later, we're gonna get Wise

Take a look into the Future
Perhaps you will already have been there
Without wordplay taken too far, I will say
We could be reaching for the stars
'cause surely we could make it if we tried
But sooner or later, we're gonna get Wise

When you look around the World
It's hard to imagine how things are gonna get better