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Where Did All Your Wit Go?

from 'Marq DeSouza' (2006) by Marq DeSouza

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Where did all your wit go?
It used to slash and burn
Left me here in a flaming wreck
But now that tide has turned
Where did all your wit go?
Still wanna take me on?
Your soul's as strong as withered straw
You broke the moral laws

Where did all your wit go?
It left you in the dust
All your wicked prophecies turned out to be a bust
Where did all your wit go?
Your coat and hat don't hide
The gut and heart that's missing
Or your mistress from your bride

Where did all your wit go?
I doubt it's in the sky
The birds would not be airborne
Too poisonous to fly
Where did all your wit go?
Your begging bowl is dry
Caught on to your agenda
Of deceit and dirty lies

Given power by fools who serve only to protect their tyranny
So I escaped and made a fire to burn the past, protect, and to preserve
What I believe

Where did all your wit go?
Have you lost your huckster's pitch?
You'd bottle and sell your mother's milk if it would make you rich
Think of the corruption
You've left your fellow man
To steal bread from your brother's mouth
You'd proudly give your hand

For years I had to stand alone while even shepherds stand among their flock
And even built my tombstone, and wrote my will with nothing left to give
On a painted rock

Where did all your wit go?
Looks like it cracked the mirror
Cut you in half, and now God's wrath
Is finally what you fear
Where did all your wit go?
Have you looked inside your heart?
Are you feeling retribution yet?
For the lives you tore apart

Where did all your wit go?
It caught you by surprise
To one moment be worshiped
And the next to be despised
Where did all your wit go?
Looks like it left you pain
Right when all your politics
Were about to be ordained

Following the prophets words, a promise truth will one day rise above
A crow as black as coal was seen flying into the sun, but he returned
And was a dove

Where did all your wit go?
It once led many men
But all your greed did was mislead them
Into the lions den
Where did all your wit go?
It's like a fugitive
It must have fleed when God decreed
You had no time to live

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from 'Marq DeSouza' (2006), released April 20, 2006

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Marq DeSouza Vancouver, British Columbia

-A very personal rock album. He also writes from a very moral perspective, which gives his record a strong POV. These songs are not filled with empty thoughts but actually try to say something. (Vancouver Province)

-Inspiration drips from every distorted and bent guitar note, down-but-not-out vocal phrasing, and sneered lyric. (Georgia Straight) ... more

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