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rebecca karpen – old dead white men lyrics

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everyone i love
is an old dead
white man
i prefer old dead white men
‘cause they can’t talk back
they’re dead
they’re peeling flesh
they have no tongue
their lives are
done

my best friends
are old dead
white men
at least that’s what my actual friends say
none of which
are old dead white men
“rebecca please
go outside!
john adams has been dead
since 1826.”
“i appreciate how you
begin to remember these things,”
i say to my friends
after i talk about john adams
once again

i refer to all
my old dead white men
as
“baby boys”
despite the fact they’re not baby boys
they’re old dead
white men
i speak about them affectionately
‘cause they’re dead
and they can’t talk back
is objectification of a dead body
kind of wack?

my favorite people
are old dead
white men
i can give them complex ideas
more complex than the ones
they actually had

i write all my songs about them
just because you haven’t heard my songs
about old dead white men
doesn’t mean that they’re not coming
or they’re not
already there
i’m just too far self-conscious
to put them out
anywhere
y’know
these old dead
white men
judge

all my songs
are about
old dead
white men
even the ones that are about me
are technically about
old dead white men
i’ve always considered myself
an old dead
white man
despite the fact
i’m not actually dead
and i’m not old
at least that’s not yet

but all my friends are old dead
white men
except my friends
who are not
old dead
white men
i have a diverse set of friends
none of which
are old dead
white men
i don’t hang out
in cemeteries
this is not
“harold and maude”

i have so many songs
about
old dead white men
i should have
an old dead white man
convention
otherwise known as “plato’s symposium”
i have so many songs
about
old dead white men
that i should have
an old dead white man
convention
otherwise known as “plato’s symposium”

just a side-note:
was plato actually a person
in addition to socrates?
my theory is that
socrates and plato
are the same person
socrates wrote nothing
plato wrote it all

what if plato used socrates
as a mask
because he was too insecure
for the greeks and all?

y’know how these
old dead white men are
but this inquiry
won’t get me far
because that was too
f-cking long ago
to be relevant
now

old dead
white
men

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