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Wake Up Lyrics by David Hyde Pierce

The Visitor (Original Cast Recording)

2022

[Intro]
So the post-World War II academic movement referred to as Neoclassical Synthesis, absorbing the macroeconomic thought of John Maynard Keynes, resulted in the theories and models termed—

[Verse 1]
Wake up
You in the back row
You're drooling down your chin

[Interlude]
Neo-Keynesian economics
That theory was developed by John Hicks and Maurice Allais and popularized by the mathematical economist Paul Samuelson
The process—

[Verse 2]
Wake up
You with the hair there
Someone poke her with a pin

[Interlude]
Began soon after the publication of Keynes' general theory, with the ISLM model, investment—

[Verse 3]
Wake up
You little snot-rags
Pretend you've got a clue
If I have to listen to this pap
This dull and dreary crap
Then so do you
And it's not like I can blame them if they leave the room
The mind departs, just up and drifts away
It's natural to flee from this oppressive gloom
This bogus intellectual display
The only thing that changes is the day

[Interlude]
I'm sorry, where was I?
Hicks, of course
John Hicks continued with adaptations of the supply and demand model—

[Verse 4]
Wake up
You sleepy shitheads
This world is spinning fast
You may think you have it sussed
That life is good and just
But it won't last
Blink twice and all your laughter
And your happy ever after
Flies right past
God, try to focus, Walter, on the points at hand
This course that you have taught for twenty years
Don't think about the day you bought her wedding band
Or the trip that you both made once to Algiers
Or the way the time between just disappears

[Interlude]
A specific example of this is the consumer model of individual demand
That's it
See you next week

[Verse 5]
Wake up
You with the lecture
The day's not over yet
No time for remembrance or regret
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David Hyde Pierce

David Hyde Pierce

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"Wake Up" appears on "The Visitor (Original Cast Recording)" in 2022.

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