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Vainglorious Boy Lyrics by Peter Hammill

Singularity

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I said steady up, settle down, make way for the Idiot Boy
He's here to sell you some kind of a story;
Like a stuck-up sore thumb he'll be coming on bashful and coy
All of the while pumping up his vainglory

I said give it up, slap it down, idolise the Idiot Boy;
Love's what he wants, or at least some attention
And he believes all the hype...
Like an archetypal Geijin-cum-goy
He plays up the Alien Genius Pretension

He'd fake his own confession to get you on his side

Oh, I say lighten up, calm it down, time out for His Idiocy now
What's going to happen when the audience dwindles?
The tide's out, the ride's up, the world's got no comfort somehowö
Truth to tell, it'll be himself that he's swindled
In a broken-down profession of over-weaning pride
Nowhere to hide...

Heaven sent compliments that were meant sincerely fall flat
And the bitterest pill is the one he can't swallow

The idiotic thing is what we have always known:
However great success is, however far you've flown
You'll come to face this audience:
Yourself, yourself alone

You'll come to face yourself alone
You idiot, idiot boy!

About “Vainglorious Boy” by Peter Hammill

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"Vainglorious Boy" appears on "Singularity".

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