Everybody Knows

2 weeks ago by @gmcgath

Everybody Knows

gmcgath

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Liner Notes

This song should properly be performed in an echo chamber. Behind all the patter and doubletalk, you may be able to discern a serious message.
#philosophy #filk

Lyrics

Everybody Knows
Music and lyrics: Gary McGath, Copyright 2025

Everybody knows
What everyone affirms,
For everything is true
That everyone confirms.
My everybody says
Your everybody's wrong,
And that's the reason why
Everybody can't get along.

Nobody disputes
What everyone can see,
So if you say it's wrong
You must be nobody.
If you don't accept
What nobody denies
Then you aren't really there,
You're no one in disguise.

But you say to me
That everybody knows
My everybody's wrong,
And I'm wrong, you suppose.
Your everybody says
That nobody would think
My everybody's right.
I have to get a drink.

If everybody's right
But nobody agrees,
Is everybody wrong?
When everybody sees
What everybody says,
But everybody fights,
How are you going to tell
Which everybody's right?

Everybody claims
To know what's false and true,
And everybody else
Just doesn't have a clue.
Nobody agrees
With everybody's claim.
All are different,
Yet nobody's the same.

So if nobody
Can tell what's going on,
I'll be a nobody
And bid the rest begone.
Nobody knows it all,
And so I hope to be
The one who understands
What's known to nobody.

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