Bust Out Breakdown

Can't you get to sleep?
Can't you choose between oblivion and infinity?
Take your place on the information highway
Find your space
And make some friends

Thumbing at the keyboard, never stops
Your stream of consciousness is just
Shot in open air
Now the outside feels like Oz
The strangers watch and send applause
But there's really no one there

I float the phone a flam
It's like my extra hand
I keep the ringer buzzing all through town
I'm gonna bust out, breakdown

I see swiftly changing layers shifting the narratives
As our imperatives bear to tear institutions sparelessly
Rat hands in the hair of new media; Can shut down a city
And mush what's there to an unchilled and fizzy
Static eccentricity
Clutching to their righteous minded ornery

Stare at my surroundings, clicking a pen
Waiting around, just for a friend
Pick CPU
Make your peace with systems
Smarter than you, algorithms
It's just the new leash that they use

Rain in jokes erodes me
TikTok's vocabulary
Me and my buddies, we talk all the same sounds
I'm gonna bust out, breakdown

When they come, they won't tell you
You'll just have to know some one who'll
Let you in or melt in your skull
It'll rule for those who'll still rule
All, all of our days
Call yourself the sun, burn the grazing
You'll be nobody's fool
But you'll be a robot's slave

Service with a smile, programmed right in
Hit you with a hi, a "My, my, you're thin."
Hit the ground in a dream
We can only look within
We'll never work outside again
Cause the self-checkout don't scream

I breach the screen with concrete
It makes the screentime obsolete
I crack a smile as it's falling down
I'm gonna bust out, breakdown
I'm gonna bust out, breakdown
I'm gonna bust out, breakdown
I'm gonna bust out, breakdown