Every waking moment
Tethered to our sweet machines
Wire life-support
Umbilical that saps and feeds
Comfort from the static sounds
Hours drained into the screen
Burned into my tired mind
Ones and zeroes fill my dreams
Separated from the world
Voluntary isolation
Luminescence is a god
Kills all sense of trepidation
Kills all sense of anything
An intellectual castration
Blinded to the march of time
We settle into our sedation
Chained! In self-captivity
Drained! Of creativity
Slaves! To our inactivity
Mired in our dereliction
Doomed to service our addiction
We worship at the alter
Of our electric kings
Be sure to never falter
You'll miss the next big thing
Stave off your obsolescence
Pursue that modern dream
Fade out, submit your senses
To our sweet machines
Living deep within our heads
Trapped in flights of fantasy
A program-perfect picture of
The way the the world can never be
Look outside and were surprised
What did we expect to see?
Go running to our mother boards
To hide from harsh reality
Made! To see what we can spend
Played! Into a hopeless trend
Trained! The cycle never ends
Were afflicted with an illness
Agents to the death of stillness
We worship at the alter
Of our electric kings
Be sure to never falter
You'll miss the next big thing
Stave off your obsolescence
Pursue that modern dream
Fade out, submit your senses
To our sweet machines
Pander on the showroom floor
Push the product out the door
A meaningless reiteration
Passed off as a new creation
Tired lies for naive eyes
A coat of paint, a bottom line
A lonely day, a lack of sleep
Acquire, retire, rinse repeat!
We worship at the alter
Of our electric kings
Be sure to never falter
You'll miss the next big thing
Stave off your obsolescence
Pursue that modern dream
Fade out, submit your senses
To our sweet machines
credits
from Live at Soul Sounds,
released September 28, 2014
Lyrics: Bobby deQuillfeldt
Instrumentals: Carbon Thief
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