Magnum Opus

If there was a cure for optimism I'd probably overdose of the prescription
Cue the violins I'm going off the deep end
Ships sinking and I'm the captain staying true to tradition
But we're all victims of our own inventions
And even the best intentions have consequences
The creature they call my conscious is supporting evidence for the evolutionist
Yeah, my brain cells bid each other good riddance
And I'm caught in the amnesia paradox
Where forgetting you was easier than I thought
And Alzheimer's seems to have made friends with my eidetic memory
And it's a conspiracy
They got me on a technicality but I got off on a tactical plea of insanity
Call in the trauma team
They'll abduct me into the infirmary's corridor of infamy
And we'll see the end of infinity when we stop looking in circles
Time is against me so I'm reversing the clockwork
Now me and the hands are tick-tocking backwards
The socially awkward introvert
The taciturn carefully choosing his words
The first alien to walk the surface of earth
And I couldn't have crash landed on a worse planet
If there's a mechanic to nurse my spacecraft then show me the launch pad
But I'd still be out of gas
So I pick up the notepad and hope I just wrote the magnum opus in the world of poets
But I know you're too busy reading your obituary to notice