Our fixation with hand held machines And replacing meals with soybeans A spectator to arguments over vaccines We're all underemployed and "getting-by" by other means Living vicariously through our broken screens Lobotomized and abused; nearly at-risk teens Utterly lost in so many depression memes Farmed and sent out from the Phillipines Too desensitized to hear our own internal screams
If a blue ribbon is first place, What does second place get? Not the slight pity for third, nor the admiration of first- So what do we, Who are neither prized gems nor coal, But simple rocks,get? What do we in-betweens get, But a shadow of a life?
I'm not bad; Maybe just not good enough yet I'm not sad; Maybe just not happy enough yet I'm not weak; Maybe just not strong enough yet I'm not bleak; Maybe just not warm enough yet I'm not a failure; Maybe just not successful enough yet I'm not a wailer; Maybe just not joyful enough yet I'm not sick; Maybe just not healthy enough yet I'm not maverick; Maybe just not puppet enough yet I'm not a bullet; Maybe just not safe enough yet I'm not a poet; Maybe just not sane enough yet
Why do you always let me hear your melody If you never let me read the lyrics? Why do you always come to me If you never stay? I want to dive but you keep me floating upon the surface.