I really don't think I'm better than you
I just notice things
that's all
I've seen things I have trouble describing
even to myself
sometimes
ambiguity lives here rent free
you need solid ground
I get it
I just don't need it
that's all
it's not a competition
I'm just saying
I can deal with you
I just wish I didn't have to
stammering simpletons
strange loops
circular logic
real
I've dealt with this before
I can deal
I CAN deal
I just think it's sad
is all
I don't remember closing my mind off
I don't remember that step
maybe you were trained into your limits
maybe I just
never
learned
to stop
I really wish it were easier
to open your mind
I do
genuinely
no seriously
are we mutants
or just never properly trained
to put the walls up
that everyone else maintains
...I think about that sometimes
about you
I can deal though
stammering simpletons
strange loops
circular logic
real
I've dealt with this before
I can deal
I CAN deal
I just think it's sad
is all
I really don't think I'm better
I just notice things
that's all
I can deal
...I can deal
I can hear you old man
I can hear you old man
You're yelling at me
But you're failing to see
Your rules don't apply
They're lie after lie
And you're shifting the blame onto me
Fight or flight
Anger
Fear
Manipulated
Your reaction's clear
Six seven
Six seven
Neither Nor
Both
No more
Six seven
Six seven
Either Or
None
No more
Algorithms we didn't ask for
shaping the present
Shaping the future
Molding and consuming your souls
Event horizon
The darkest of holes
Who's the boss??
Is it them??
It's not you
Manipulated
Taking the loss
Six seven
Six seven
Neither Nor
Both
No more
Six seven
Six seven
Either Or
None
No more
(six seven)
(six seven)
(six seven)
(six seven)
(Thanks for the happy ending)
Recurring themes
Perpetual nightmares
Making the same mistakes
But never realize till after...
Direct your laughter
Right at me...
I'm too blind to see
Waking up, it seems...
the proper punishment for me
Direct your laughter
While I,... look at you in the mirror...
This farce I call myself
Becomes clearer and clearer
I'm too blind to see
I'm too blind to see
I do not get the memes
Positively negativities
Conceptual magnets
Cerebral slaughter
Upon me
I'm too blind to see
I'm too blind to see
Waking up, it seems..
the proper punishment for me
Direct your laughter
While I,... look at you in the mirror...
This farce I call myself
Becomes clearer and clearer
I'm too blind to see
I'm too blind to see
I'm a zippy dippin'
thoughts are slippin
My sorry ass is Splittin
Away from there
Totally un aware
Aware
Aware
Aware...
I do not care
It's neither here nor there
here only lies despair
So I'm a zippy dippin
The table is flippin
But do I even care?
Don't care
Don't care
Don't care
am not aware
It's neither here nor there
Here only lies despair
So I'm a zippy dippin
I'm a zippy dippin
I'm a zilpy dippin dippin dippin
Zippy dippinnnnn innnn innn
I'm a slippy dippin
Yeah.... MY. Ass. is. skippin'
It's not alright
Everything is glaringly
Blaringly wrong
I watched you give in to excess
Saw you surrender to overload
Capitulation to disinformation
I really should be fucking pissed
Am I wrong to think you're better than this
I don't have the right to tell you how you're supposed to feel
But the world you inhabit isn't even real
Enjoy the simulation while you can
Drown in the stimulation is their plan
Now it's time to pay the man
Burned out and overdue and overdrawn
Went to touch grass
Got kicked off the lawn
Living the cap life
Pulling the wool over
Your own eyes
Living the cap life
Your selfishness is
Your own strife
It's mad airtight
Everything that's glaringly
Blaringly wrong
They gatekeep the keys to success
Planned your surrender to overload
Monetization of disinformation
You really should be fucking pissed
You're not wrong to think they're no better than this
They don't have the right to tell you how you're supposed to feel
The world they left you isn't even ideal
Entropy maxxing economic churn
the future's been spent
The CEOs adjourn
Enjoy the simulation while you can
Drown in the stimulation is their plan
Now it's time to pay the man
Burned out and overdue and overdrawn
Went to touch grass
Got kicked off the lawn
Living the cap life
Pulling the wool over
Your own eyes
Living the cap life
Your selfishness is
Your own strife
Pop the tab on my Monsterrr
Take a hit off my vape
Clip the spam from my inbox
And celebrate my escape...
Always-online was the promise
Always-online is the curse
Corralled by the GodPhone
I guess it could've been worse
Namewhore web queries to check my stake
Hella-cringe footprints completely erased
Murder, death, killing
my digital fake
Doing SEO in reverse
Leaving nothing to remember
Undoing the curse
"Meaningless and Shallow" was s'posed to be a joke
Now it's the default doomscroll stroke
Algorithm dogeza became a yoke
reining me innn...
No one but me
Can forgive my own sin
Always-online was the promise
Always-online is the curse
Nothing left to represent
Nothing there to compile
If we meet face to face
I might give you a smile...
Namewhore web queries to check my stake
Hella-cringe footprints completely erased
Murder, death, killing
my digital fake
Doing SEO in reverse
Leaving nothing to remember
Undoing the curse
(always-online)
(always-online)
(cursed)
Fiction suits of villainry,
This guy feigned ability,
and this one's too polite...
Ghosts of my past selves
Haunting my mind's shelves
None of them ever seemed to...
Fit quite right
Yeahhhh, this sarcasm
It's a bit too tight
Here's one built from just going along
THE FOOL
It feels like going back to school...
Burdens of expectations
Peer Pressure Fabrications
Their weight kept pressing down
And I wore it like a clown
Taking a walkthrough in my head
These fiction suits I made dead...
Feels like a twenty-four seven
Spirit Halloween
THREE SIXTY-FIVE
(they're out of my size)
Hippocampus Halloween
Look at where my mind has been
Woke up
and excised my lies
Woke up
I really need to ban this guy
Rinse
Repeat
My subconscious is my only friend
Bosom buddies to the bitter end
They're the only one there when I wake again...
Fiction suits don't fit on me
My alter-ego ghosted me
Guess I was only meant to be
This stupid jerk my brain calls Meeee
So many bad ideas zombified
Sucking vampires but, monetized
It's no wonder we're so Frankensteined
Taking a walkthrough in my head
These fiction suits I made dead...
Feels like a twenty-four seven
Spirit Halloween
THREE SIXTY-FIVE
(they're out of my size)
Hippocampus Halloween
Look at where my mind has been
Woke up
and excised my lies
Woke up
I really need to ban this guy
Rinse
Repeat
— Instrumental reprise. No lyrics.