Mark Leidner - What's Cool lyrics

Probably nine tenths of people mistakenly believe they are cool. They probably believe themselves to be part of some sort of cool movement. They think that what they think is cool really is cool, but I've got news for them. It's not. It's incredibly lame. And what's lamer than somebody thinking they're cool when they're not? Not only is that thing that they think is cool lame, but that in itself, thinking you're cool when you're lame, is lame. It's the lamest thing of all. The irony is, I imagine the lamest person in the world thinks he is not only cool, but is the coolest, believing himself to be the very essence of cool. And for a moment, the irony of that is cool, how he thinks he is so cool, yet is so lame. Not for long though. Even now, that irony is already becoming lame. Wait a moment. Now, it is fully lame. So that anyone still thinking that was cool, by this point, even though they were very cool at the beginning for thinking it, and the first person to think it was, briefly, the coolest of all – now they are all very lame, and if the first person is still holding onto the coolness of that (and you know he is) then he's the one who time has made the biggest fool of, because his luck or sk** at being the first to think something that was briefly cool to be cool has bought him nothing but the shackles – shackles in the form of an overpowering urge to hold onto something long after its coolness has been spent, earning him the dubious distinction “lamest of all.” What he doesn't realize is what's cool changes. It's a moment to moment, day to day sort of thing. And only the people who realize this are cool. However, as soon as that is said, what's truly cool becomes permanent again, so that only those people, the people who have believed in the permanence of coolness all along, are in the end redeemed. Soon, however, even that will change. It has already. Now, those and only those who believed what was originally cool is still cool, but not really, and are willing to change themselves, altering their entire belief structures to keep pace with what's cool as it changes, are finally, and all alone, completely cool.