(from The Year of the Pig – 2009)

(music and lyrics by Zachary Dunbar)

There’s one too many people yearning
Dreaming one in a million dreams
Still too many people passionately burning
With impossible, improbable dreams.

One too many people believing in this,
Believing in that—
Wallowing in delusions and heeding some call.
Sentimental people doing their damndest
To prevent the possible, probable, inevitable fall.
‘Tomorrow is another day…’— save that shit for a rainy day.
‘I know it was meant to be…’— who gave these people eyes to see!?
Tell your mother she was right for once
Stop bothering the world and give up the fight for once
There’s too many people crying in the night
At the end of the tunnel, there’s a light!
Lay your head on the track and die
And let the fittest step by.
Your luck’s run out
No second chance
Don’t even think of getting new fans for your
Yearning, scheming, dreaming
One in a million dreams.

(Spoken)
There’s one too many people buying into that
I-deserve-it, I-am-worth-it creed.
Greedy little bastards,
Your fifteen minutes of fame is up.
Thus I make this proclamation—listen up!

(Sung)
Hopefulness is now a crime.
Amputate the hand of fate.
Take responsibility for your action
And feed on that kind of satisfaction.
Oh—you listen to what your heart says!
Might as well decipher what your fart says.
When odds are against you from the start,
What not take this truth to heart:
There’s one too many people
One too many people,
One too many people yearning.