YOUR STRUGGLE 

the emptiness of consumerism being the
decisive form of freedom of choice
butcher your health and dismantle the earth 
my addiction    to distraction 

What it wanted to say but couldn’t
What it wanted to become that was never going to be approved at

To refuse can be your conscious outing of resentment
If you can’t change things, you can still refuse 
The things you loved as a child and you weren’t supposed to 
You can still still change things, you are here, you’re in control  

What it wanted to say but couldn’t
What it wanted to become that was never going to be approved explorer 

I won’t be bothered by a mindless consumerism
I won’t be lowered to a post-human tool 
I won’t be fooled by your almighty algorithme 
Sapere aude, meta knows your name 

the emptiness of consumerism being the
decisive form of freedom of choice
butcher your health and dismantle the earth 
my addiction to distraction 
it’s your struggle it’s yours it’s your struggle

I won’t be bothered by a mindless consumerism
I won’t be lowered to a post-human tool 
I won’t be fooled by your almighty algorithme 
Sapere aude, there is something to explore 

Is it true what they say you are
Mira knows your name and game

When the voice of reason
Falls on deaf ears
Your defense a high treason
Just power shifting gears

Child, come meet your destiny 
In the prison of the social scale

An abuse, a brutality 
You cannot bail

They have the right to take
They have the right to break
They have the right to choose
You have the right to lose

Who is right, who is wrong?
It’s all decided when the race is won
are you in or are you out
be one of them or be left aside

Be one of them, be left aside
Be one of them, be left aside

Be one of them, be left aside
Be one of them, be left aside

When life no longer comes first
Justice but a spin of words
Righteousness but a truth that bends
Another life that ends

If the leaders of tomorrow
Are the victims of today
Grown in pain and sorrow 
Does hope for life remain?

They have the right to know
They have right to destroy
They have the right to lie
You have the right to die

There’s no right, there’s no wrong
No fair players in this Kingdom come
when you’re in, you are out
small part to play so play it loud

Play it loud, Play it loud

Another life that ends
With every truth that bends

This life is a walk
in the middle of the night
Through a world veiled in darkness
as the moon creeps up high
A wolf’s howl in the distance
as shadows draw near
Embrace the growling and screeches
They motivate your fear

Fight or Flight
Face it or hide
No nightmare’s fright
is all hell
Fight or Flight
Face it or hide
Fear well

Death is the reason for life
The fight is the reason to survive
The dark is the reason for the light
Fear is the fuel for the fire

Fight or Flight
Face it or hide
No nightmare’s fright
is all hell
Fight or Flight
Face it or hide
Fear well

Choosing the path of least resistance
is not always the better choice
Through heartache, failure and anger
We create our proper voice
It’s the light at the end of the tunnel
that makes us see things clear
Despite distrust, fears and bad dreams
Now is the time for fear

living in a media – mediocracy
As seen on TV
Clear away your imperfections
To regain your husband’s affection
Yeah that’s right
I know just what you look like
Your deepest desires and fears
for sale
quick get your shares before the market fails
Every time you turn the page
The signs are flashing in your face
Each time I go online I’m
spending time in mediocrity
I hope my record’s been erased
So I can die with dignity
I hope my record’s been erased
So how can you define what’s real
You can not trust the ground on which your judgement thrives
Get your news while it’s fake
Words spreading hate
Save yourself, be distracted by the
Minor worries of a welfare state
Gaze upon your shattered self-image
Still your broken bits reflecting light into your soul
Open your eyes, open your mind
Time waits for no one so get used to loosing your sight
Every time you turn the page the signs are flashing in your face
Each time I go online I’m spending time in mediocrity
I hope my record’s been erased so I can die
The social media pull my strings cut me free from it
Good luck keeping your dignity in a mediacracy
Consumerism is my religion
Release your energy
Release your restraint
‘till you encounter situations
That may damage your relations
Or slip into something more comfy
Buy yourself something fancy
All alone you pull the trigger
Lest your sorrows just get bigger

If the starships ask me for gold I will go deep for infinity’s sake
and by the time the engine shuts down I’ll be no longer awake so

Laughs are made of wood, laughs make me feel good
and if you know you’re stealing shows across the land
hazing down for I might overtry this
Lost, a world of sleep, sinking in too deep 

Aches and trembling but you’re still awake as you’re haunting
me gremlins are taunting the walls of my sleep
Five for the night I swallow and might reach for a sixth one that comes in my sight
if the starships ask me for gold or so I was told

And I can get no sleep 

First time I cried over the ship’s end
this time I wonder what the whale meant
I went through the law of descent
in a snap, in a cringe, in a case in a moment

At the time the waves went by
I looked up and there was no sky
no heaven to cry for a total abyss
I am drifting afloat in a sea of nothingness

Walls afloat crushing me low there was no warning no knock on my door
Walls afloat crushing me low there came no morning to knock

coma save my soul from raving

Aches and trembling but you’re still awake as you’re haunting
me gremlins are taunting the walls of my sleep
Five for the night I swallow and might reach for a sixth one that comes in my sight
if the starship propels me for gold or so I am told

Why do they say
the world has gotten cheap
when we have everything to repay?
Why do they speak
of the history of Men
when the world won’t remember when
when it began? 

Why do they say? Why?
Why do they speak? Why?
Why do they obey?
Why do they hide? Why?
Why do they seek? Why?
Why do they deny? 

All for a world in slumber
keeping the fate till we’re
six feet under
Here I go with the strength
of a whale going upstream
Heart still ablaze
Mind unrestrained
Still fighting my way
till the day the penny 

Drops in an ocean of time
our short-lived societies come to fall in time
No one remembers when it began
and the world will outlive us after all 

Why do they obey
the Laws of Economics?
Even money’s silent when it has nothing left to say          
Why do they hide
the true consequence of crime?
Let next generations deal with wasted time 

Why do they seek
the lessons learned before us?
All they ever know was how to self-destroy us
Why do they deny
That we dignify
that we won’t live to see the day
when our last debt is paid? 

Why do they say? Why?
Why do they speak? Why?
Why do they obey?
Why do they hide? Why?
Why do they seek? Why?
Why do they deny? 

Why do they say? Why?
Why do they speak? Why?
Why do they obey?
Why do they hide? Why?
Why do they seek? Why?
Why do they deny? 

We are wasting our time
Our clock keeps ticking away
Why don’t we act?
Why don’t we act?
Is it too late?
Is it too late?
Maybe this is our fate?
Will we be able to repay
our debt to the world?

We were born in the land of plenty
of all we think we need
No more landscapes of rivers and green
All of it iron and concrete

We think we control what we are seeing
but we still don’t understand
our own inner workings and problems
as the world is spinning out of hand

The world’s on fire
Please save me from the flame

What we behold with our eyes 
we can no longer deny
Better learn to stand the heat
The future is very concrete

What is the nature of mankind
a question we need to ask ourselves again
Our bodies and minds ever changing
to benefit these concrete plans

In a world where nothing grows
what we own is cold and unkind
We keep on grinding though everybody knows
our legacy will kill us in time

What we behold with our eyes
we can no longer deny
Better learn to stand the heat
My future is very concrete

So what’s the nature of mankind
a question we need to ask ourselves again
Our bodies and minds ever changing
to benefit  these concrete plans