Wire - Now Was lyrics

You're the wizard of was, becalmed in because The nawab of no, with no place to go A grandmaster crashed, whose future has past The wazir of fear, now: Seer of the year Used up and broken, f**ed up, bespoken The wear and the tear are easy to behold Where once was a diamond, now hides a sly man A corpse of corruption, in rancid decay Archduke of rebuke, the pharaoh of fluke The Lear of sneer, once pick of his peers Charming and hazy, the Llama of lazy You sit on your hands, 'til the trouble has pa**ed Eyes that impressed, now idly, undress Trust once shared, is beyond repair Pledges sound hollow, which promised tomorrows They float to the floor, forming lakes of dead skin A new broom is coming, I hear it close, humming So near and so loud, drowning out my last words