The Ascent of Stan

The Ascent of Stan - Ben Folds

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 hippie 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 wonder why your father was so resigned

Now you don't wonder any more

The ascent of Stan

Textbook hippie man

Textbook hippie man

Get rest while you can

Stan: Once you wanted revolution

Stan: Now you're the institution

Stan: 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 hippie man

(Stan)

Textbook hippie man

Get rest while you can

Stan: Once you wanted revolution

Stan: Now you're the institution

Stan: How's it feel to be the man

It's no fun to be the man