Every morning when I wake up
And turn on my T.V.
People I don't even know
Keep smiling back at me

Telling me they know my problems
And how they sympathize
Smoke um if you got um
Try these on for size

Pounding me down into the ground
With the newest latest fad
And how life's not complete because I need
Exactly what they have

Well I don't want to have it my way
Or any way at all
In this drop your drawers, bend over for
Turn your head and cough

Trying to sell me all the bacon
On the latest diet fad
I've had more than I can take and
I'd rather just stay fat

And  this trying to look much younger
These aren't wrinkles but memory scars
So take your natural lotion, magic potions
And cram them where it's dark

All you people I don’t know
Smiling back at me
Every morning I wake up
And turn on my T.V.

A tad bit loose
You wear it well
This wrinkled suit
In which you find yourself

Thread bare
To the bone
This suit you've used
For who knows how long

Scuffed and scraped
Patched and sewn
Once priced high
Now bid low

Shimmered, shined
Once colored bright
This now loose suit
Past trimmed and tight

This worn out suit
You now have on
You’ll wear it well
Till you buy the farm

We must be living in the future
As far as the future goes
The beginning of the end
Of all that we have ever known

All of the past memories
We crammed in our heads
If it were up to me
I believe we should have kept

Instead of this Artificial Intelligence

We shot ourselves in the foot
Instead of for the moon
Not sure why we hired these cooks
Spinning crazy spoons

If we keep this madness up
There won't be much of nothing left
We've learned to trust the science
Just not the scientists

And their Artificial Intelligence

Break the beaker Brandon
We'll take it from here
Changing definitions
Won't make it any clearer

They keep on pushing buttons
Hoping for the best
Hold tight to your muffins
They're cooking up a mess

With this Artificial Intelligence

Few could say they've had it all
That's exactly where I was before
But where I was, was in the world
And I'm not there anymore

The constant struggle to stay on top
Close to the edge, afraid of the drop
The moving and shaking that never would stop
I'm not there anymore

Counting rungs on the climb to success
Falling up would be my best guess
Lost in thought over the constant quest
I'm not there anymore

Lucky to some but unlucky in love
To gain it all, I ended with none
Fought too hard to hardly have won
I'm not there anymore

A lightning bolt hit me by surprise
Tore my heart, turned my sight
Away from the world to all that is right
Now I'm working for the Lord

Because I'm not there anymore...

Seems we’re slap dab in
A down spin in our wisdom
We’ve lost all semblance of difference
Between that of women and men

Completely forgetting who owns
Which set of chromosomes
Crossed our will’s with want’s
Lost our do’s and don’ts

I find we’re in crazy times
Woke folk out of their minds
With thoughts short of a dime
Could someone please hit rewind

On the back of this caboose
There’s more than a few screws loose
That’s what you get when you
Hold the tracks together with crazy glue

Putting us smack dab in
This downward spin in our wisdom
Losing all semblance of difference
Between that of women and men

I had hoped things would be different
Different model, different make
But when I look deep in the mirror
I see that nothing much has changed

Inside this constant battle
Always fighting to be free
No stronger foe have I met
me against me

A war that has been raging
From the day that I was born
Always misbehaving
A soul tattered and torn

Poking along with prodding
Why can't I leave me be
Always in the midst of plotting
me against me

You'd think by now that I'd found out
All the lessons to be learned
The tables to be turned
On the trouble that I've earned

How have I made it out this far
Into this knee deep
In the pulling of myself apart
me against me

If I could go back
To the day that we met
You know what I would do

I'd still say hey
Tell you my name
Then say that I love you

Why take up the years
It took to get here
To come up with that truth

Now that I've thought it out
Beyond a shadow of doubt
That's exactly what I would do

The day I said hey
And told you my name
I would tell you that I love you