...Learn To Hide/Die On The Inside...

You want to feel free...
You want to truly be...
You want to thrive...
You want stay alive...

Learn to hide/die on the inside
Isolate and abide/tread the social tide
Life ain't no ride, it's being confined
Learn to hide/die on the inside

...life can't be too real
...not all wounds can heal
...horror's in the deal
...a moment's all you steal

Learn to hide/die on the inside
Isolate and abide/tread the social tide
Life ain't no ride, it's being confined
Learn to hide/die on the inside

...keep your bliss contained
...keep your reality restrained
The world has always sucked and drained
all that it's not trained
to...

learn to hide/die on the inside
We're all the reaper's bride
so take it all in stride
or
learn to hide/die on the inside

No, they won't let you be...
No, they'll hardly let you breathe...
...yeah, they will soon hunt us down
...yeah, they'll conquer every crown
so...

learn to hide/die on the inside
Raised in the grapes suns dried
wines age better than our pride
Swallow it all with another bromide
then
learn to hide/die on the inside

Androids in the Anthrocene...

The humanoids have set the scene
and left androids in the anthrocene
Flesh replaced with latex things
Lifetimes given to life-like beings

Planted plastic plants to teraform the decor
Traded sunlight for synthetic calor & allure
and sugar-soaked all flavors a pretend-pure
Alienated life from what nature could restore

They alienated each other too
Hearts beating as one were ripped in two
then shattered by temptations old and new
Love: the word 'botoxic'-lips butchered & slew

Their own purpose in life, it slowly fled
as work made them long to stay in bed
without dreams remaining within their head
To rest in peace seemed much less dead

Then they watched the mirror look away
as their own soul could not be made to stay
and hope was lost as a dizzy & rabid stray
No stars could guide under a sky so gray

All the aliens are so gone
No alienation is left to long
for anything to put to song
or contemplate as right or wrong
Only androids now carry-on
all computing, all withdrawn

Lifeless here is the scene
of Androids in the anthrocene
What does any of it mean
with nothing left of all that's been?
See the obscene become unseen
by androids in the anthrocene

Here precluding all that now
Witness all these things die-out
Terrified to death at how
none of it can quite amount
to anything to be all about
None of it beyond abysmal doubt
Hear the numbing silence shout
None of it without us dreams
It's only shadows upon the scenes
of androids in the anthrocene