All the betrayals have now left their mark

Now I'm just painting in the dark

I fell short of finding Noah’s Ark

Still I’m painting in the dark,

There’s dust obscuring the glass

Their fleeing the population centers in mass

The escape of radioactive gas

Hemlock should be poured by the flask,

Somehow life has lost its spark

I broke the law on a lark

When I jumped the fence an ominous bark

Now I’m just painting in the dark,

There were too many wolves today

Out in the pasture where all the sheep play

More draconian laws passed without delay

The state won’t even allow children to play,

Trying to express something deep

A foolish civilization sowing what it reaps

Constantly spending more than it keeps

During the abduction they heard a series of beeps,

I’m on a bridge to nowhere it seems

Ravaged by the prospect of disturbing dreams

Getting dysentery from polluted streams

Deep in the night those inward screams,

I’m just painting in the night

I know it doesn’t seem quite right

Like a flock of seagulls taking flight

Considering the future may not be bright,

Carefully, I stepped into the danger zone

When I heard the rattling of bones

On a scale never before known

Painting in the dark again all alone,

A thousand outcomes might have occurred

Just as the migration of the birds

Some might think these words are absurd

The dictator’s speech seems conspicuously slurred.