Apathy

Alex: My original lyrics from the 90s were mostly about TV and how additictive it was to me and how I hated the way it stole my time. I repurposed the song to be more about social media and added some stuff like "we hide behind the photographs" which is a way of talking about the image we create to the world but the reality may be very different...and lonely. I also added that I'm unfortunately a part of this stupid algorithm now, although a very very very tiny part, but still. Anyway, apathy...yeah. 

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You are the image that you see

I know it’s cool to act so bored

Drown yourself in banality

You hate the things that you adore

 

I’ve had enough of irony

It makes me feel so incomplete

Attention is our currency

Doom scrolling is just a streak

 

Life’s so much better on TV

Let’s stay inside and watch some more

Here we are now older and lonely

The entertainment was a bore

 

We hide behind the photographs

We were caught up in the aura

Fun is a weary kind of laugh

And there’s nothing new I knew before

 

The sun is shining but I can’t see

A reason for my Apathy

Reading too much into things

But at least it passes time

 

I’m split into pieces

Swept up by the algorithm

In too many places now

To even care