I’ll pretend I won’t be lonely
Looking at this blasted screen
Watching my idea of you —
The one you just present to me —
Acting like it’s reality
Then putting you in my fantasy
Man what a fucked society
No idea what Intimate means
I wonder if we ever knew
We’re only intimate with inanimate things
And that ain’t real intimacy
No This-Life possibility
For fear or love or joy or pain
But hey – at least you get to be
The Puppet Master – pull those strings
But He ain’t into the aforementioned things
He just sits behind your computer screen
Never has to reach a thing, only someone else’s screen
I’ll get specifically selected pieces of you
The ones He is controlling —
Carefully chosen words and phrases
Photographs that make you seem…well…
Exactly what you want to seem
And I am equally as guilty
God forbid we let the darkness in
Or let our baggage show
Or give the scars that seem so grim
A loving hand to hold
No
Better we just go on like this
Hiding behind inanimate things
Let our Delusions pretend they’re our Dreams
Cover the Truth that bursts from the seams
Reality’s made for a certain kind
A human strong enough to mix with Divine
And know she ain’t controlling shit
With her facebook posts and her twitter-twit
Close the machine, the technology
The Matrix-notion it’s gonna be like the movies
Snap the fuck out of it
Jump into Life
Yeah, it’s a bitch
But I swear to God it’s better to Risk
And the pool’s damn deep but come for a swim
Cause I, for one…
I’m getting in.