To future generations: apologies for the doom If we're being honest, we knew better But the facts were inconvenient We’ve left the lights on so you can see how fucked we’ve left you You're welcome Just to manage expectations: you’ve all been primed to die The ignorance felt fine when it was willful Distracted by gods, pop stars, clowns, and UFOs We used our last breath To argue about semantics We evolved from great apes To eat our own shit We're not cynical But show us an optimist, And we'll show you a goddamn idiot Thank god we’ll be dead before we descend into bedlam We lived through a global pandemic  And all we got was a brief appreciation for toilet paper This world doesn't come with instructions, But denial goes in the recycling bin, guilt goes in the trash  Allow us to use your near-death experience  To sell you some actual fucking death Sometimes it's too expensive to keep living The fucks were too expensive to keep giving Remember when we just threw it all away?

There are wires in the side of the sky That connect to the side of my face Let’s go There’s no time to waste And the guardrails we set might be limited But there’s nothing to fear if we’re disciplined Let’s go There’s no time to waste Be prompt or be late Oh One Oh Is this hallucination Or just a new equation Limited memory There’s only one way to play the game Is time just a luxury The sentiment’s gone and the corpus is defamed The future is now Been thinking somehow We’ll all need to get with the program The data is strange But the models will change We’ll all need to get with the program A change is gonna come But not for everyone We’ll all need to get with the program If life is just a chain We’ll do it all again We’ll all need to get with the program There are lies that we’ll tell to get by And mistakes that just can’t be erased Let’s go There’s no time to waste And we’ll keep our new context in hypercare But as people we’re not even self-aware Let’s go There’s no time to waste Be prompt or be late Oh One Oh Is this hallucination Or just a new equation Limited memory There’s only one way to play the game Is time just a luxury The sentiment’s gone and the corpus is defamed The future is now Been thinking somehow We’ll all need to get with the program The data is strange But the models will change We’ll all need to get with the program A change is gonna come But not for everyone We’ll all need to get with the program If life is just a chain We’ll do it all again We’ll all need to get with the program

It feels so real Everyone knows what’s right So we fight it tooth and nail We can’t fail Except that we damn well might And the odds don’t seem ideal Let’s hold hands And watch as it’s set on fire While making future plans It feels so real It feels so real But it’s too late now What’s left when we’re nowhere? Make sure that we never just fade away But you can’t save me There’s hope for us somewhere But we’ll all need a way To pay To play We’ll say Make sure we don’t fade away But you won’t save me It’s not fair But when the thunder’s gone The rain is on its way We don’t care Except that we know we should So we yell into thin air Let’s play dead Maybe the threat will pass And kill someone else instead It feels so real It feels so real But it’s too late now What’s left when we’re nowhere? Make sure that we never just fade away But you can’t save me There’s hope for us somewhere But we’ll all need a way To pay To play We’ll say Make sure we don’t fade away But you won’t save me

Involved Devolve Vice Device Consume To Live Primed To die Everything’s forgettable When it’s so dispensable Online Decline Like Deny Presume To give Mined To lie The outrage is dependable When everything’s defendable What an interesting collection of data you’ve become Scroll Writhe Mind Defined Resume To feed Starved Of why Living on a pedestal Paid to be unethical Fake Subscribe Boiled Alive Assume The worst Serve The hive The revenue’s commendable When everyone’s expendable What an interesting collection of data you’ve become

We’ve lost our way Thrown it all away The sky is dark the path is laid out Believe cliche The future is today Understand the past is grayed out Show us a sign Make the stars align We’ll try to walk the straight and narrow Swallow our fear Survive another year Gone today and here tomorrow Are we too late To hope for another day There’s got to be Another way Hold my hand the knife is falling This can’t wait There’s no more another day Time to find A better way Hold my hand the knife is falling It’s a stalemate Wave the flag so no one wins Our pride might die So hope begins Hold my hand the knife is falling Hold my hand our time is running out