The critics will use fancy words like synergy and re contextualizing
but if you know the past, its really nothing surprising
pop idol of the 22nd century
recycling all the tropes that were always meant to be

They're gonna call you another Beatles or Elvis
with a loyal audience that never heard nothing like this
pop idol of a future time
ransacking the past and making it rhyme

History repeats itself as tragedy and then as farce
you'll wow the crowd by rediscovering electric guitars
though Dylan went electric 200 years before
that was before the third and fourth world war

by the time you will be born, melody will be a lost art
but your songs will have at least four notes, I guess that's a start
pop idol of 2164
wants to hold your hand just like before, (yeah yeah yeah)

The cycle continues little is new
every generation's got its blue suede shoes
the roots of this music came from those who picked cotton
a fact that even now is conveniently forgotten

The critics will use fancy words like synergy and re contextualizing
but if you know the past, its really nothing surprising
pop idol of the 22nd century
recycling all the tropes that were always meant to be

(c) M. Skliar 2019