Not Supposed To Be Wise

Lyrics

I guess we're not supposed to be wise If everything that learns also dies It's a planet that just stumbles and cries But I guess we're not supposed to be wise Everything smart has gotta wash out to sea To make new room for inexperience and stupidity Everything alive had to vacate the path For some new nitwits like me who can barely do math There's a billion sweet elders that the Earth will reject To greet a billion new jerks who don't know cause from effect So everything is infinitely incompetent And everything that's so confident is false confidence But I guess we're not supposed to be wise If everything that learns also dies It's a planet that just stumbles and cries But I guess we're not supposed to be wise A veil of illusion and silk Sleeping through a cold volcano of milk It's a frustration when you enter or leave A screaming nursery without a reprieve Where no one turns to someone when it just doesn't wanna be And then someone turns to no one, such a stupid economy Where everything is desperate to crawl out of the slime And everything that happening is for the first time But I guess we're not supposed to be wise If everything that learns also dies It's a planet that just stumbles and cries But I guess we're not supposed to be wise Why do they show up with that look on their face? Why do they leave just when they can't be replaced? Why throw in the garbage well-trained artists and teachers? And what's so important about some new stupid creatures? There's a layer of biomass always churning and sifting And indifference to ignorance, it's endless shifting So why attempt to get experience when time and sense hates you? Why attempt to get smarter when that's a crime against nature? Guess we're not supposed to be wise If everything that learns also dies It's a planet that just stumbles and cries But I guess we're not supposed to be wise