The Renaissance Man has died
To a world too broad and specialized
To be on top he craved
But there was no way today

And he had all the experts; the champions and greats
And he took all his queues from them
But he never stopped to see
The hidden miseries in these men

We have separate lives in a common world
Through different eyes we never see a whole
Complexity has grown too bold
For the common man

He heard, "Find your thing, you gotta be the best."
And, "Fight your way above the rest!"
"Be different; never plain --
Not a common man."

Yet as he heard these lies
He never stopped to realize
The originality
Of a common man

We have separate lives in a common world
Through different eyes we never see a whole
Complexity has grown too bold
For the common man

We have separate lives in a common world
Through different eyes we never see a whole
Perplexity has taken hold
Of the common man