President Trump emerged from a meeting on Iran with his usual bounty of decisive outcomes: absolutely nothing. Elsewhere, the Aukus nations are collaborating on underwater drones to protect cables, presumably because the surface world is already ruined, while Italy has valiantly banned Kanye West to save its citizens from the gravest security threat of all—bad vibes. Down in South America, Lula is refusing to let the US treat Brazil like a 'tinpot country', though one suspects being designated a terrorist state by Marco Rubio wasn't quite the diplomatic courtesy he was hoping for.
🎵 (s)Hit of the Day 🎵
Version 1
Version 2
📜 Lyrics 📜
[Alap Introduction]
[Verse 1]
The King has called his council
The final word is due today
They gathered in the golden hall
To hear what he would say
The scribes they held their trembling pens
The generals stood in line
But silence was the only thing
To grace that grand design
[Chorus - Call and Response]
Oh, the meeting was important
(Important, they declared!)
Oh, the outcome was essential
(Essential, so they swore!)
But power is a phantom now
That vanishes in air
And silence is the strategy
For those who do not care
[Verse 2]
Beneath the waves of oceans deep
Where cables carry light
Three nations build their iron guards
To watch the signal's flight
Australia, the U.S., the U.K.
In pact and in retreat
They said: "The next war comes for Wi-Fi
And we shall not accept defeat!"
[Verse 3]
In Roma's ancient piazzas
The censors drew their line
They cancelled all the singers
Who might speak what they define
As dangerous to public peace
As threatening the state
While down in Laos, villagers
Still gamble with their fate
They dig for gold in flooding caves
Where children's lungs give out
But rappers are the true threat
Of that, there is no doubt
[Chorus - Call and Response]
Oh, the meeting was important
(Important, they declared!)
Oh, the outcome was essential
(Essential, so they swore!)
But power is a phantom now
That vanishes in air
And silence is the strategy
For those who do not care
[Bridge - Building intensity]
Lula stands in Brasília
And thunders at the West
"We are no tinpot country
Put your labels to the test!"
But gangs become the terrorists
In papers signed afar
While blood returns to streets he knew
And heals an ancient scar
In Colombia the voters walk
Through paramilitary fear
The ballot box a battlefield
The choice is far from clear
[Verse 4]
From Canada, a quiet man
Sent packets through the post
A business built on tragedy
For those who needed most
And British families cry for justice
At a system that fails them so
While Jamaica's film reminds us
Of magic hidden long ago
Obeah lives in shadows
Where the outlawed spirits dwell
A hex upon a hexed-up world
A dark and powerful spell
[Final Chorus - Full fervent build]
Oh, the meeting was important
(Important, they declared!)
Oh, the outcome was essential
(Essential, so they swore!)
But power is a phantom now
That vanishes in air
And silence is the strategy
For those who do not care!
[Outro - Fading]
Silence is the strategy...
Silence is the strategy...
For those who do not care...