Oh consensus, publicists and your mother The explorers got it wrong, there ain't nothing to discover You can show me the door but I ain't leaving I got new age tricks just beyond conceiving Everybody's got a past, you wanna share it like a present Don't think you're in a caste, but you're nothing but a peasant No pointless digressions No deathbed confessions Just new age tricks and old time obsessions Lizzy'd seen a lot, but she didn't know what she was in for 'Cuz the last rodeo didn't go like all the others before And she wished that she would disappear And she wished that she would go There were certain new age tricks even she didn't know So defenseless in the arms of a new mistress He could scarcely make the gesture, he could hardly protect the witness Say he went crazy or absent without leave Or pulled some new age trick he had hidden in his sleeve No one even asked so why are you testifying? No one's hiring, so why are you even applying? Had to go all the way downtown just to bail you out Those new age tricks couldn't even save you now