Why Do You Make Bad Music?

You're an intelligent person

With a nice record collection

Yet when you make music

Something happens

It's not a question 

Of talent-

Something meaner and stupider 

Comes out of you

I don't care if you're successful 

So was hitler.

When you put out a dumb vibration

Life catches up to you

You do a bad thing

Like a corporation eating the planet

And it becomes your thing 

Against the world, beyond ridiculous

Because your music

Doesn't make something interesting

It doesn't make 

something curious 

It confirms the worst in everything

And it's very successful 

You don't need the money

You don't need success 

You need to be able

To live with yourself 

because I can't ...