Dystopioids

We're living in fear of a future, that happened yesterday
Desensitized to end of times on our centre stage

Hiding debt like a victim hides abuse
Possessions won't save you but might disguise a bruise

I'm low on energy, can barely afford it
Flicking through my luxuries picking which to forfeit

On the edge of the 1st world poverty line
Those words taste like the toast of economy wine

All relative, knock back a sedative
Depression is a gateway to designer medicines

That help to reach, existential peace
Big pharma's charge a hefty fee for that recipe

Here we are addicted to Dystopioids
Push it in, slump back and hope for joy
Here we are addicted to Dystopioids
Open wide, cry, try to choke the void
With these drugs, we get by
Keeps us numb, from this life
We fuss and we fight
With each rush we decline

We're only as different as the isms of algorithms
Branching out but our roots twist around system

Let's talk, sit, measure up our politics
Listen to the opposites but seldom we acknowledge it

In a crowded city where the broken spirits live
Cost of living crisis holds a mirror to our privilege

Dinosaurs beheld a rock called Armageddon falls
We'll swap a comet for autonomy to end it all

The clock ticks, the nukes are set
Respond quick, pollute what's left

We are toxic, no news is best
Stop... What a convoluted mess

But whether a peasant or petulant king
Endeavouring heaven or secular wings

Measured by blessings or measured by things
Repellent of weather or dressing the sting

Whatever you're meant to be, let it free
In death we are energy speckled in dreams

Remember that we are just sentient beings
Forever's a meme, we are not evergreen leaves

Here we are addicted to Dystopioids
Push it in, slump back and hope for joy
Here we are addicted to Dystopioids
Open wide, cry, try to choke the void
With these drugs, we get by
Keeps us numb, from this life
We fuss and we fight
With each rush we decline