Influenza

Laid to rest instead of stand corrected
A sallow generation increasingly disaffected
Regurgitating social scripture as if you meant it
But bottle up your vexes inhibitions can’t be vented

Stuck in a world fundamental to your detriment
Too busy to notice 'cause you’re in your fucking element
Life’s not a lesson as your own understudy
You know the waters are muddy
Life’s prepared to fuck you bloody

Isolated in a crowd
Your world exhumes persistence
Prosthetic electronic actuality
By virtue of a virtual persistence

Bounded by your freedoms
Spun by your sphere of influence
Social perverts
Constrain to the screen
Lock you in with strangers

Isolated in the crowd
Your screams don’t make a sound
So profound, so filled with doubt
The world will drown you out
Calculated your existence

Isolated in the crowd
Your screams don’t make a sound
So profound, so filled with doubt
The world will drown you out
Calculated your existence

Life’s down and out
With a head filled with doubt
Put the onus on yourself
Grief you can do without
Manufactured madness
Product of your environment

Stuck in a world fundamental to your detriment
Too busy to notice 'cause you’re in your fucking element
Life’s not a lesson as your own understudy
You know the waters are muddy
Life’s prepared to fuck you bloody

Isolated in the crowd
Your screams don’t make a sound
So profound, so filled with doubt
The world will drown you out
Calculated your existence

Isolated in the crowd
Your screams don’t make a sound
So profound, so filled with doubt
The world will drown you out
Calculated your existence