The Story of Our Times

[Intro]
From Gilgamesh to Beowulf
To the Odyssey
Every time has a story to tell
And pass down through history

Ishmael went out searching for whales
And Gatsby longed for acceptance
Tom and Huck went and ran all amok
And we've been talkin' 'bout them ever since

Long after the people are gone
The stories that represent them still last
The written letter helps us know a little better
Our ancestors from the past

And we're no different from they
We've all chosen our own story that will now live on
And summarize our current day
And represent us now forever in the great beyond

[Verse 1]
Little girl wanted to be famous so bad
'Cause she had a semi-famous dad
'Cause he was friends with a murderer
Who was on TV

Well she had no TV murder friends like her pa
But she had one that was in the gossip mags a lot
Because her grandfather owned hotels
And had made a lot of money

Well that friend blew a guy on videotape
And the news talked about it for six weeks straight
And our hero had a plan to get that fame
That she so craved

She got the guy who played the brother on that Moesha show
And they filmed themselves goin' hard as they could go
And we've been payin' attention to her for
The whole last decade

[Chorus]
It was the story of you
It was the story of me
It was the story we choose
To pass down through history

It was the story of us
And of our time here
What we were about
And the heroes we cheer