The Machinist

Plug the wires into your brain
To augment your reality
Surely humanity needs more than this?
But real life
Is something you can't escape from
Virtual worlds expand and consume

While you stumble
Into the walls that surround you
Bitterness exposes the cracks
You paste over with shining lights
But light reveals all the darkest places

You are alone
And you are afraid
You're being brainwashed
At 60 hertz

Peel back your skin
If it makes you feel alive
Strip back the covers
And open your eyes
You're trapped inside

Will this be
All that you amount to?
Will this be
All that you live for?
Step out into the night and breathe
Fight the call of the virtual
Fill your lungs with oxygen
Open your eyes

Despite your life you are not living
You're draining your soul
The façade is lifted
You see the truth
Now you see the walls that surround you
It is a self-inflicted prison
You're a fucking shell

A fucking shell of a man
In the shadows you are lost

Unplug the wires from your brain
To reclaim your reality
Surely humanity means more than this?
But real life
Is something worth holding onto
Something beautiful and pure

You search for realisation
You hope to be enlightened

You start to see what is wrong here
How could you fall for it?
You're blinded, you cannot see a way out
All you need is an escape road
Some way to cut the ties
From a vice that saved you
And now is eating you alive

Strip back all the pain
Don't let it in
Hold on to the life you've been gifted
Step out of the cage
You're trapped inside

Strip back all the pain
Don't let it in
Take hold of the life you've been gifted
Step out of the cage
You're trapped inside
You might feel lost without this
But given time
Your demons will fall in line