Dar Williams The Pointless Yet Poignant Crisis Of A Co-ed Lyrics

The Pointless Yet Poignant Crisis Of A Co-ed Lyrics




I'm not a leader, i'm not a left-wing rhetoric mobilizing force of one,

But there was a time way back, many years ago in college, don't laugh,

But I thought I was a radical, I ran the hemp Liberation League with my

boyfriend, 
It was true love, with a common cause, and besides that, he
was a Sagittarius. 

We used to say that our love was like hemp rope,
three times as strong as the 
rope that you buy domestically, 
And we
would bond in the face of oppression from big business and the deans, 
But I
knew there was a problem, every time the group would meet everyone would

light up, 
That made it difficult to discuss glaucoma and human rights,
not to mention 
chemotherapy. 

Well sometimes, life gives us lessons
sent in ridiculous packaging, 
And so I found him in the arms of a Student
Against the Treacherous use of Fur, 
And he gave no apology, he just turned
to me, stoned out to the edge of 
oblivion, 
He didn't pull up the sheets
and I think he even smiled as he said to me, 
"Well, I guess our dreams
went up in smoke." 
And I said, No, our dreams went up in dreams, you
stupid pothead, 
And another thing, what kind of a name is Students Against
the Treacherous Use 
of Fur? 
Fur is already dead, and besides, a name
like that doesn't make a good acronym. 

I am older now, I know the rise
and gradual fall of a daily victory. 
And I still write to my senators,
saying they should legalize cannabis, 
And I should know, cause I am a
horticulturist, I have a husband and two 
children out in Lexington, Mass.

And my ex-boyfriend can't tell me I've sold out, because he's in a cult.

And he's not allowed to talk to me.