Life on a Screen
Song lyrics on when life has turned into a meme.
I stay in bed cause I gotta. But not because I wanta. Every day it's getting harder, life gonna turn me into a martyr. My mind is shouting, my soul is doubting, that I got anything to offer. So, I sit, and I stare, I waste my time. Drop another hashtag, drink some more wine.
Don't let your life be all in vain. When your time has come, you may have to explain, why you just stood there and stared at a screen, while life as we know it turned into a simple little, inconsequential, ridiculous, messed up meme.
And I'd like to blame my cell phone game, my laptop brain, the political shame. My life as a female, the barrage of junk email, my parents who died before I could friend them. My teachers who let me be bullied, am I a victim? Of hate? Of white privilege? Of not caring enough? Of not listening, not seeing, not loving, just being?
If I had a daughter, I know what she'd say, when the smoke and the smog became part of her day. She'd question my motives, she'd question my purpose, she'd ask about hunger, then point to the surplus. And what could I answer, what could I say? When every day, in my bed, I just lay. I thought I was nothing or something not needed, that life would continue and leave me unheeded.
Don't let your life be all in vain. When your time has come, you may have to explain, why you just stood there and stared at a screen, while life as we know it turned into a stupid little, preposterous, petty little, forgettable meme.
Myself I dismissed in every way, thoughts creeping, then weeping, spectacular sheep into Facebook and YouTube, is Twitter my bible? I never could stand up and lead a revival. You wouldn't or couldn't? she'd ask me again and I'd bullshit and I'd lie and some tale I would spin. Like we're all going to die and it's the nature of sin. I was a victim of apathy, of fearing too much, of not believing, not knowing, not loving enough. Yeah, was I a victim? Am I a victim?
Don't let your life be all in vain. When your time has come, you may have to explain, why you just stood there and stared at a screen, while life as we know it turned into a silly little, unbelievable, ridiculous, screwed up meme.