Your Useful Idiot

It’s a pleasure, a pleasure to be useful
Surprising how long it took me to see…
A pleasure to be dutiful
Only the question remains…how may I be?

Whether in the realm of friendship
Where I’m good for a laugh and frequently liquid
Or be it the forge of industry
I am the deadline, I’m the one you want to stick with

As long as there’s a need
For as long as there’s a purpose I’m filling it
As long there’s a call to heed
I’ll heed it, and be your useful idiot

I’ve all my life been a usеful idiot
Surprising just how far one can get
Suppressing dеsire and courting denial
And spiralling deep into rage and regret

It’s one thing being useful
And another being an idiot
Like whiskey and cola, coming together
It’s a wonderful whole other thing that you get

As long as there’s a need
For as long as there’s a purpose I’m filling it
As long there’s a call to heed
I’ll heed it and be your useful idiot