That Golden Time

Remember, dear, that golden time

Before you thought you had to choose

Between the shrinking violet truth

And a growing list of IOUs

Before the keepers of the gate

Revoked your ticket to the land

Where eloquence was still in date

And everything was cash-in-hand

Before the dulling of the mind

Encased in algorithm blues

Hollowed out the heavy stuff

Replaced it with a careful ruse

And whispered in the gravy train

Careening on the falling sand

But now we turn the hourglass

For advocacy is not a brand

Who am I to say?

Who am I to say?

Who am I to say?

That golden time

That golden time

That golden time

That golden time

Remember, dear, that golden time

Before you thought you had to choose

Between the shrinking violet truth

And a growing list of IOUs

Before the keepers of the gate

Revoked your ticket to the land

Where eloquence was still in date

And everything was cash-in-hand

Before the dulling of the mind

Encased in algorithm blues

Hollowed out the heavy stuff

Replaced it with a careful ruse

And whispered in the gravy train

Careening on the falling sand

But now we turn the hourglass

For advocacy is not a brand

Who am I to say?

Who am I to say?

Who am I to say?

That golden time

That golden time

That golden time

That golden time