Dead Eyes

How do I know that you are real
How do I know that you think and feel
How do I see the world through eyes that aren't my own
How do I know you're not a ghost put here to make me feel at home

I see a thousand faces every single day
Not a single one of them ever seems to look my way
The light behind their eyes seems different from my own
If there's a billion people out there, why do I feel alone

Dead eyes, dark mind, empty thoughts
You got nothing and I got what you got
And this is just the song that plays over the loading screen

Maybe all this solipsism
Is just a symptom of the broader breaking of the ties that bind
The things that hold us together
Are broken down to sell a manufactured fraction of what we left behind

Alienated from each other
Mutually alone, separated from ourselves
Everyone else is just an NPC in the pay to win game
That the powers that be are trying to sell

How do I know that you are who you say you are
And that you'll be here if I wake up in the morning
I want to lay back and love the life that I've been given
But I still hear a warning

Dead eyes, dark mind, empty thoughts
You have nothing and I have what you got
And this is just the song that plays over the loading screen