The Chosen One

You glide through the ugly scene

Like an eel riding Vaseline

Listen in to everyone

Keep your distance from the smoking gun

Pulling strings from forbidden rooms

Greasing palms when you need to

Stop at nothing to get your way

Right or wrong

And you lied

But we'll never know the half of what you've done

Oh no, you must be the chosen one

Breathing air with the fêted few

Assassin smiling like an ingénue

You're the enemy they're keeping close

The friend that they fear the most

Did you call every favour in

When the whole affair hit the fan?

Tell me how you can sleep at night

After all you've done

Go and hide

While your friends all take the blame

You cut and run

Because you're the chosen one

And it's no surprise

As you're slithering out the shade back into the sun

You're looking like the chosen one

When the world was camped at your door

Just like karma's army had come for a war

Was that a tear in the steely eye

Of the Almighty's favoured chosen child?

And you lied

And God only knows what the hell you've done

You can't question the chosen one

And it's no surprise

You're coming around again like you were never gone

No shame about what you've done

You must be the chosen one