Stepping out against the tide of the river
Knee-deep in opinions, whatever
Right or wrong, left or right…
Going up the central reservation
Dual carriageway out of this town
Winding roads and lights are frowns
I think I could’ve been someone
I think we all could’ve just been someone else
Someone said I’ll never make it
They said ‘you’ll break, get stuck.’
Glued to the sh#t like a starving bug in the rain
Swimming in it
Covered
You’ve never felt so good
You’ve never fully recovered
Now… look how far we’ve come
Regression, disguised as progression
Don’t answer back, don’t question
Just go with the flow of the river
’til you fly off the top of the waterfall
You’re pushed under now, the bottom of the lake
That’s the end
No more air to breathe
Just the gushing water of the tide of opinion
Being forced down your lungs
To form a cancerous lump that festers
Are you happy now?
We’ve cancelled it all! We’ve purified the lands
Sanitised…
No-one’s offended, no-one feels sad
No-one feels pain, no-one feels glad
No-one feels anything anymore
Except the urge to go on social media
Can’t help but notice how we put everything in a box, from our food… to our homes… to who you are
It’s like everything’s gotta be packaged all nicely so people can understand it
Nothing too large, just nice and small, like a bouncy ball in a box in a supermarket
Is that really required?
Everything in a bag, everything in a box, all packaged up with some wonderful artwork…
As long as it looks good, then it must be, right?
I mean, why else?
Why else would I bother engaging my brain to figure out whether or not it’s just made to look good, to pull me in, like a… venus flytrap?
Like that fly paper you stick on the ceiling with… families of flies stuck to them crying out to be saved?
But it’s only a bug right? They’re not alive. Who cares?
Don’t focus on that. Focus on umm…
Focus on your skin colour
Hey, here’s an idea, let’s fight racism with racism
All these years of evolution to get here, just to be divided up, fighting each other, burning your towns down to the ground…
‘hating on’ one another, not focusing on how much you have-in-com-mon…
But focus on anything and everything that can potentially make you feel offended
Because feelings matter more than facts, apparently
Love your neighbour
Love your enabler
Love your neighbour
Love your enabler
Love your neighbour
Love your enabler
Love your neighbour
Love your neibular
Love your nai-blah
Love your neh-bulah
Blah bl-lah bl-blah
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