Sincerity In Retrograde

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Culture burgeoning
Form a line and pave the way
For the teenagers
With the tattooed faces
Sincerity in retrograde

"Spiritual enlightenment"
Bringing constant social climate change
And impostor syndrome
Weighty humble-bragging tomes
Inner peace is a bloodied stone

So tell me what you see
Are we any closer to being
Happy
So tell me what it means
Are we more than slaves
To technology?

Come on, Come on
Come on, give it to me

New dependency
White pyramid dreams
New intimacy complexities
We're bleeding cash on bougie shit
This white upper-middle entitlement
Is a struggle beyond our wildest dreams

Imaginary hostility
Ubiquitous immobility
Instant gratification
Generation notification
Ain't nobody gonna miss
Us now

So tell me what you see
Are we any closer to being
Happy
So tell me what it means
Are we more than slaves
To technology?

Come on, Come on
Come on, let me hear it

I never learned
To play piano
But I can craft a song
With the little skill I've got
As could anyone
And that's not enough
I wanted nuance
And some credibility

Standing by the shelf
Taking in a vanguard page
Shoulders of the greats
Are stood upon
To quell dismay
But this place
Keeps dragging me back down to stay
With the mirror man
The earth is an
Unbearable weight

Get yourself a drink
Relax
Just breathe
Why do you take it all so seriously?
So lighten up
You morbid fuck, or
Nothin's ever gonna be
Good enough
But don't we like it here?
It's such a lovely little
Cage

Sincerity in retrograde