Stuck in a Maze

Now we witness in the streets
Different kinda crimes and needs
Cut my wifi, watch me bleed
Too late my mind stuck in a maze
Show me something I can feel
More and more I get unreal'd
We get plowed like in the fields
Billions served up, happy meals
Phones put down next to our beds
5G coursing thru our heads
My soul download to the Feds
OGs woulda shot the bed

How many y'all ever tried living a day without your phone?
Tapping likes, swiping rights like a digital garbage flow
Damn, another shooting, wait, look at 'em titties
Zoom in, zoom in - yo DM that bitty!
Now we gotta play online all day
Grabbing booty and coins and making digital hay
Confusing ourselves, fusing ourselves
With the thing once made to stop losing ourselves
1 hour, 2 hours ain't enough
Now if we don't get 8 that day be hella rough
8 hours downpoured in the drain
Only in our online fantasies do we make it rain
But can we say tho that this was not our own sh*ting?
It all started the day we needed same-day shipping
Cuz - yo - living in this century means wanting and having it NOW
Cuz God didn't create us to do the waiting thing well - Huh!
So half the world in they cribs spinning fidget spinners
While the other half slaves away in fulfillment centers
Electric on lock, can't even take a break to piss -
Wrestling to get to Western so they village won't miss this
Injustice? Your new look is flawless!
Who'd've thought to look for the exploited beyond our own borders
Put down that silly silion - to thine own self be true -
My brothers, you gotta ask: What's Real to You?
Cuz otherwise - huh - don't know how else to say this
Soon you'll fade to your room to evade tricks in the Matrix
It's true!

Now we witness in the streets
Different kinda crimes and needs
Cut my wifi, watch me bleed
Too late my mind stuck in a maze
Show me something I can feel
More and more I get unreal'd
We get plowed like in the fields
Billions served up, happy meals
'Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
Should I die before I wake
I pray the Lord my soul to take
Good night, iPhone!
Good night!'

Now everything you want they got a m*f*kin' app for
'Tap me, I please your every need' ain't just a f*kin' metaphor
I'm lost - 'I'll calculate your most optimal route...'
I'm hungry - 'Tap me for a discount on Chinese takeout...'
I'm beat - 'Here are one hundred forty three hotels near you...'
I'm lonely - 'How bout Marcel, 38, with the Eminem tattoo...'
See what I mean? There ain't no space to breathe
The first thing I did this morning was check my own feed
See who dumped whose a*, and what's currently trending
Taylor just threw shade at Beth and Morgan just got canceled
Cancelling?! That's a human life you talking about trashing
Has Insta upped your fashion only to zero out your compassion?!
Do u even know what it means to be canceled in the streets?
That sh*t was full blown while you was still s*king on teets
What's your value of life? Where's your humanity?
Too busy binge feeding on the next season of superficial vanity

And you think your Smartwater habit just feeds the recycling nexus
Somewhere in the ocean
There's a whirlpool of bottles the size of Texas
If you don't believe me, check it out on the satellite
Zoom in, zoom in - haha, that ain't no island!
That sh*t just a pile a unbiodegradable hydrocarbons -
A mild mix of condoms, codeine vials, and microorganisms
You can always get a crateful more at the local superstore
Or sit in your boxers, click a few boxes, and galore!
Now birthdays ain't the worst days
But the more you drink the more you feel you thirsty!
Your chains are homemade, you wrecked your own blaze
Detained your soul and locked him in your own maze

At night I still have dreams about the way it was
When kids balled outdoors and filled dance floors
God was a sunrise in infinite vivid colors
And Love was a mystery, perfect in its own balance
Not this pixelated byte-sized bullsh*t
They convinced you red-green-blue was all there was to it
Which world is the illusion? Which one is the hell?
If you gotta Google it you already might as well
Put in 'beautiful', see what comes out on topsic
Then tell me the sh*t we built is color-agnostic
We wrote our new Masters into existence so they can rule us
Using our own damn selves they charm and fool us
Convinced us that True Beauty is a million followers
Even while we blah blahing onwards about self-tolerance
Hypocrisy? The maze I'm in that word has no significance
And plus I'm not the one to talk; I'M F*KED TOO since
The truth is I feel its tentacles enveloping me too
Spreading like mycelium into everything I do
Hear, say, see, think, feel I'm losing my grip
Devices conspiring to send me on a permanent trip
Enslaving my sex drive, everything a test drive
Better make your best drive, lock the doors and let's ride
Grab the road with all wheels - any road suffices -
Blast the beat of freedom, onwards we chase sunset
Keep riding like you can't stop thru gas stations and rest stops
And if you feel like dozing, pull that left handle twice towards ya
It's the Nav-on-Autopilot, even Einstein would have liked it
See a neon sign says 'Welcome!
You're entering Silicon Valley
Population: 8 billion.'

FK!



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Writer(s): Victor Yang Gao
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