luxury anxiety

fireshine

hello!
have you been here long?
i had to leave you waiting,
to keep appearances on
(it is time)

i know
there's a lot to be undone.
here's a match to get you started,
and a barrel of fun!

oh. it is time.
oh. let the fire shine!

on a winter's day
(it's the only way)

now friend...
if you take this on
and come back again tomorrow,
your allegiance is won

and if it's all the same
i'll just record your name.
and make a note of the date,
for anniversary sake.

oh. it is time.
oh. let the fire shine!

take my hand and we'll burn it to the ground!
the only way is up, cause we're already down!

isticism

state of istic
euphamonistic
satanista of a statistic
natavistic
social ballistic
sorry is a
supposed holistic
are you vedic
or agonistic
terrorized
or opportunistic
incentivized
enactonistic
stupified
and
ultra-sophistic
pair assedic
maxi millistic
icy attic
homodomistic
hybridismus
techno femistic
polarized
and agro-politic
cyanoheuristic
naturalistic
clementine
nano-pluristic
desensitized
pane tourista
company tethered
et utre fascistas
free pear acidic
duo toryistic
contemplate
we're crystal clear-istic

turns out some words are never true
pray that you'll never hear them
burned out, no meaning coming through
say that you'll never fear them

tell me again what the TV said
be outrageless, and,
put me to bed

reel life

Don't want to feel
Don't want to care
Don't want to make myself aware
Don't want to see
That my TV
Is never balanced, never fair
Don't want to know
That all they show
Is only meant to sell me more
Luxury Anxiety
For the cost of being poor

Don’t want to sleep
Don’t want to eat
Don’t want to miss a breaking tweet
Or skip a reel
That has appeal
And feeds me more of my beliefs
Influenced to keep me safe
In a world for the devout
Where fear of god has been replaced
With a fear of missing out

Tik tik tik tik tik

Don’t want to hear
Don’t want to read
Don’t want to learn from history
This is now
And anyhow
I never see it in my feed
No one to blame
They’re all the same
Any news is just pretend
Catastrophes? absurdity!
It’s entertainment in the end

Don’t want to dream
Don’t have the need
I’ve given in to their machine
I won’t be bored
Anymore
As I succumb to this disease
Don’t want to go
And look outside
Burst my bubble
Full of lies
I punch the like
And hit subscribe
They’ll notify me
When I’ve died

Tik tik tik tik tik
Tok

outrageless

One by one
We pass through the days
One by one
I watch you slip away

Take in the embrace
Of the lover, Rage
Slide in decline
Of the common age
(Whisper in the dark “this is all okay”)
(What you were before seems so far away)

(This is not okay)

One by one
Good memories will fade
One by one
New scars take their place

Stepping from the shadows
Is a new decay
Binding you in shackles
Of a golden cage
(Whisper in the dark “this is all okay”)
(What you have become is the only way)

(You've been led astray)

If you ever return this way
Find us in the place
Of our younger days
Dancing in the light
Where it’s warm and safe