Modern Exchange 歌词

As my voice makes its way through your headphones And settles somewhere in your brain Is our consciousness interconnected? Are we bleeding out similar veins? Whether I sing of grief or of freedom Does it sound just like more of the same? Can you cryptically cope with the sadness As if you’d even want it to change? There’s a rotating door of women Who will love you and keep you safe But be it a building or bullet There’s only one way off the stage Give us brevity instead of boredom Give us black and white flags to wave Give us internet instead of epics There’s no time in the digital age There’s no love in a modern exchange There’s a sea turning under her eyelids No true poet would try to explain In order to write down the essence The person is always erased God's been so cruel in my dreaming For in the morning when I wake I’ve only a memory to cling to Of sharing her smile and name And when I lose my grip on the moment Feeling reality fade I’ll climb up the walls of my bedroom To her picture eternally taped Give us loving instead of a lotus Give us colorful flags to wave Give us intimacy in the narrative Take me out of the digital age No computer could take her place