Sunlight coming through the haze
No gaps in the blind to let it inside
The bed is unmade, some music still plays
TV, yeah it’s always on
The flicker of the screen, a movie actress screams
I’m basking in the shit flowing out of it
[Verse 2]
I’m stoned in the mall again
Terminally bored shuffling round the stores
And shoplifting is getting so last year’s thing
X-Box is a god to me
A finger on the switch, my mother is a bitch
My father gave up ever trying to talk to me
[Riff]
[Verse 3]
Don’t try engaging me
The vaguest of shrugs, the prescription drugs
So you’ll never find a person inside
My face is Mogadon*
Curiosity has given up on me
I’m tuning out desires, the pills are on the rise
[Chorus]
How can I be sure I’m here?
The pills that I’ve been taking confuse me
I need to know that someone sees that
There’s nothing left, I simply am not here
[Verse 4]
I’m through with pornography
The acting is lame, the action is tame
Explicitly dull, arousal annulled
Your mouth should be boarded up
Talking all day with nothing to say
Your shallow proclamations all misinformation
[Verse 5]
My friend says he wants to die
He’s in a band — they sound like Pearl Jam
The clothes are all black, the music is crap
In school I don’t concentrate
And sex is kinda fun but just another one
Of all the empty ways of using up a day
[Chorus]
How can I be sure I’m here?
The pills that I’ve been taking confuse me
I need to know that someone sees that
There’s nothing left, I simply am not here
[Bridge]
Bipolar disorder
Can’t deal with the boredom
Bipolar disorder
Can’t deal with the boredom
[Instrumental & Solo]
[Outro]
You don’t try
To be liked
You don’t mind
You feel no sun
You steal a gun
To kill time
You’re somewhere
You’re nowhere
You don’t care
You catch the breeze
You still the leaves
So now where?
*Mogadon is a brand name for the drug Nitrazepam, a hypnotic, which is prescribed for insomnia and other sleep disorders.
Which word would you use to define a person that nothing else brings pleasure? It would probably be apathy. What would be the cause of this apathy? Over stimulation? Overdosing?
You probably think that only adolescents are apathic and don’t want to talk with people, but we adults also live in our own world. You probably are using one of the devices that are the most responsible for apathy. We’re living alone, though circled by people. As says the article “From dispersion to apathy — How technology makes us lonely”: We live in continuous partial attention, we’re never present, therefore we don’t have time for deep thinking.
The song, very acid, brings the story of an adolescent that was over stimulated in many subjects and nothing else pleasures him, and the only thing that stills entertain him is his videogame. This adolescent probably has, besides family issues, bipolar disorder and make usage of medicine to control his neurons and hormones that are in constant shock. Pornography, which is seem as stimuli for this age, doesn’t even has any effect. The time for him is vague. His world is empty.
This narrative is about an adolescent, but many adults live life of excesses and apathy. I know a lot of them! We are forgetting how to connect with people. We are forgetting how to enjoy the simplicity of nature and life. We are living in a sick generation where everything is solved by posting on social medias and/or taking drugs that, quite often, are black labelled. Everything is so short. One day we’re here, the other don’t.
Our attention is loose and we’re giving this to the younger which, since early age, are exposed to this cursed blessing of technology, developing in many of them ADHD. As a teacher, I observe this in many pupils. They prefer to talk about their new mobile games most of the time instead of simply run. Glady the school I teach forbade the usage of mobile phones during recess for elementary students, and put in their disposal toys like rope, hula hoop, ball, among others.
We are in a high level of apathy, living in a so blank planet that professions like “people walker” rise up, which take people that feel lonely and make them company while they walk.
May we fear this blank planet, that wants to force us living in apathy and, as consequence, isolates us. Use your live and technology smartly. Be smart. Dare! Leave! Quit! Live!
About the article, I recommend you to take some time to read. Though an average of 18 minute-reading, each paragraph (and reference) will you re-think some things.
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