WOKE

 

You think you're one hip asshole keeping up on all the terms

Watching Fox and Gutfeld like the best behaved of worms

And I’ve been watching with you. I’ve listened and I’ve heard

That you oh too clever fuckwads have a new four letter word!!

A word you love to use so much you say time and again

A new word and you’re lucky this one doesn’t start with “N”

You use it like a new confederate flag you just unfurled

As the cause of all your fear and perceived evils in the world

It’s now become the trite answer to each and every question

Like “why do I not have a job” and “What’s this indigestion?”

It’s become your newest thing, your purpose, mission, cause

It’s all your hack comedians have to get their cheap applause

You use it in your politics, you use it in your jokes

-Yeah it’s your brand new buzz word.

Let’s all say it, “Woke!

You say that you are not it, as if that’s a source of pride

And you’re so glad not to use it like those on the correct side

Well, about that, I got bad news that you’re really gonna hate

Cuz I gotta remind you we’re no longer in two thousand eight

And vocabul’ry has moved on. It’s gonna make you sore

But nobody says “Woke” except racists anymore…

Nope. Nobody says Woke except for racists anymore…

It started out a novel word with lots of good intent

A way to try and tell a bunch of bigots to get bent

The term was ‘sposed to designate the too few human b’ings

Who read the room and realize that race is still a thing

But now it’s all gone sideways and gone so darned obtuse

That being “Anti-woke’s” become some grandiose excuse

For all of Trump’s ol’ rabid basket of deplor'ble minions

To hold on to their vilest fears and least informed opinions

And claim that they’re not racist, no, they’re never racist, nope

They’re somehow being ANTI-racist being anti-woke

And since they’re anti-woke we get to hear them sleep and snore

Nobody says “Woke” except racists anymore…

No. Nobody says “Woke” except racists anymore…

I wish that I could blame my jokes

Bein’ not funny on the “woke”

And it’s my slant being attacked

And not that I’m a soulless hack

And if the writing gets too hard

Just blame ‘wokeness” like Bill Maher

But I can’t use that tired basis

Because I’m sadly just not racist

And it would be total absurd

To blame my failure on a word

That I can't use, I'm not allowed

For only racists use it now...

Don’t you blame your lack of effort or your tired schtick

Don’t you blame it makes you come across a total dick

Don’t you blame material that’s best be called “meh, fine”

Don’t blame never bothering to have a damned punch line

Don’t blame the fact your jokes are old and stale and are just duds

Just say folks are "too woke" and resume slurping your own pud

Then die hard with your two bland minutes at the Com’dy store

Nobody says Woke except racists anymore

Nobody says Woke except racists anymore

Sad that that poor Word “Woke” has become the hue and cry

Of folks who kind of like it when the cops beat a black guy

It was folly, I now think, trying to define

People as “woke” simply ‘cause they’re thoughtful, brave and kind

All it did was give ammunition and buck shot

Against aforesaid people by those decidedly… not

The snoozers who ran with it and per usual stole the game

Because that’s really all they got ya' know is calling people names

And since they used it all up and now seldom is heard

Their tired and true old favorite, you know, the N-word

They’ve taken the poor “woke” word, which really should mean “nice”

And made it their favorite new dog-whistling device

And so it has become sadly one that we need ignore.

‘Cuz nobody says “Woke” except racists anymore…

Sigh. Nobody says “Woke” except racists anymore…