Keep your head up George
and harden your old shell
This “evilution” anyway
will take us all to hell
You´ve got the beatnik
existential look of Foucault
Shellcoat, turtleneck and the
disinterest you show
You´re neither a mutant nor a ninja
a teenager no more
the tide of human degradation
overflows your shores.
Lonesome George
Darwin was right
Lonesome George
but it was worth a fight
You may be the last one, George
but still that´s hard to tell
and even if that were the case
it may just be as well
Cruise ship tourists
collect Kodak moments and gloat
People have no clue that you
keep Noah´s ark afloat
It seems so random, George
it seems like just because
It´s all too human George
even in Galapagos
Lonesome George
Nietzsche was right
Lonesome George
and that´s a turtle´s plight
You´ve seen a lot George
and this I know my friend
no-one before us has ever
gazed into the end
I know you visit her
in your turtle dreams
in that other world
I´m sure your sad face beams
Even in this place
you sometimes give a smile
though you haven´t really
meant it for quite a while.
Lonesome George
the Bible was wrong
Lonesome George
and you knew all along
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