Pangs of silence

From the room upstairs

How's the view there

Do you read what they're saying about you

That you're no fun

Since the war was won

In fact, you have become 

all of the things you've always run away from



The ascent of Stan

Textbook hippy man

Get rest while you can



So where'd the years go

All the time we had

Being poor was not such a drag in hindsight

And you wondered why your father was so resigned

Now you don't wonder any more



The ascent of Stan

Textbook hippy man

Textbook hippy man

Get rest while you can



once you wanted revolution

now you're the institution

How's it feel to be the man

It's no fun to be the man



And now, watch it all go down



The ascent of Stan

Textbook hippy man

Textbook hippy man

Get rest while you can



once you wanted revolution

now you're the institution

How's it feel to be the man

It's no fun to be the man