Loving Someone (Live from The O2, London, 12/16/2016)

I'm exhausted, it's been a mental year, hasn't it, everybody?
Not just for us, for everybody, erm, yeah
I'm not here to talk about politics
We're not here to think about politics
We're here for a release
We're here for some music
A release from all the bullshit

(Fuck Donald Trump)
No, but that's the thing
It's not even really about fuck Donald Trump
That's the thing
It's not, it's not even that

We've been in America for, like, three months during the election
And we were in the UK during Brexit, so we fucking picked our time in this year
And um, that's not- that's kind of not the rhetoric that's needed
'Cause I was so angry, and I know, look at-
We see loads of young, liberal, compassionate people every night

So this is our- this is like our world, like, this is the world that we see
So when things go at odds of that
It's really confusing, and it's really fucking-
It makes you really angry, and the thing is, I know
It's very sad to see all of these young voices of progression and change
Being drowned out by regressive ideals and bullshit, It's very sad

And it appears to be paradigms of race, and it is about that
And it is about gender, and it is about age, and it is about sexuality
But it's also about a lot of these people that voted against for what we stand for
They're so- yeah, yeah

They feel so, so disenfranchised by both sides of political systems
That that felt like the right thing to do, so if we're young, right?
And we're liberal, and we're compassionate
And we're Muslim, and we're black, and we're gay, and we're whatever
If we are that, then it's our responsibility to be compassionate
To listen to everybody, listen to their concerns and move things forward
And you are our people, and we love you so fucking much, you have no idea
This song's about loving someone

You should be loving someone
Oh, oh, loving someone
Yeah, you should be loving someone
Oh, oh, loving someone
Yeah, you should be
(Let's have it, London)

My heart is telling me the telly isn't telling me anything I need
But it needs to selling me
Besides celebrities lacking in integrity, holding up the status quo
Instead of showing the kids that they matter
Who are they gonna batter next?
Just keep hold of their necks and keep selling them sex

It's better if we keep them perplexed
It's better if we make them want the opposite sex
Disenfranchised young criminal minds
In a car park beside where your Nan resides
Are not slow, they've just never been shown
That you should be

Loving someone
Oh, oh, loving someone
Yeah, you should be loving someone
Oh, oh, loving someone
Yeah, you should be

We're all human, we're just like you, man
We're sentient, we're something or other
I can't remember, whatever
We shouldn't have people afloat
If it was safer on the ground, we wouldn't be on a boat

Charlatan telepathy exploiting insecurity
And praying on the purity of grief and its simplicity, but
I know that maybe I'm too skeptical
Even Guy Debord needed spectacles
I'm the Greek economy of cashing intellectual cheques
And I'm trying to progress, but instead of selling sex
I should be

Loving someone
Oh, oh, loving someone
Yeah, you should be loving someone
Oh, oh, loving someone
Yeah, you should be loving someone
Oh, oh, loving someone
Yeah, you should be loving someone
Oh, oh, loving someone
Yeah, you should be

I am forever in alongside the boys in jumpers on bikes
From schools and cars with autumn leaves fallen sparse across mid-afternoon
She blazed about how "Cultural language is an operating system
A simple interface rendered feeble and listless when tested
With divinity or a true understanding of the human condition"

I never did understand the duality of art and reality
Living life and treating it as such
But with a certain disconnect to touch that
Cajoles at the artist with comfort and abandon
And between the rolling roofs and spires of that white city
That orange, English light cast only one Singular shadow
For you are not beside but within me (let's go)

Loving someone
Oh, oh, loving someone
Yeah, you should be loving someone
Oh, oh, loving someone
Yeah, you should be loving someone
Oh, oh, loving someone
Yeah, you should be loving someone
Oh, oh, loving someone
Oh, oh