Who do you pretend to be
To please everyone?
Who are you imitating now?

I’ve heard the same story
Long before this one
You are nothing but a copy of it

So are you neo or post?
Remade for love
Oh oh
Funny
Or maybe you don’t want to know
It was done before
Oh oh
And we go round and round
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Oh
Are you fake or real?
Are you friend or foe?
Oh oh

Tell me who made you up
Was it you or someone else?
Whose shadow is behind your back?

Maybe I’m cynical
But you shouldn't be surprised
You are not the first to make this promise

So are you neo or post?
Remade for love
Oh oh
Funny
Or maybe you don’t want to know
It was done before
Oh oh
And we go round and round
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Oh
Are you fake or real?
Are you friend or foe?
Oh oh

Who is behind the filter?
Who’s behind the mask?
How much of yourself is left in you?

Or maybe you're a collection
Of everything I want
And you've been customised for my desires

So are you neo or post?
Remade for love
Oh oh
Funny
Or maybe you don’t want to know
It was done before
Oh oh
And we go round and round
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Wow, you’ve just exploded
Haven’t realised
In a place like this you must
Watch your step all the time

I guess it was that word
Or your stream of thoughts
Maybe you should know the world
Has changed since our last talk
A bit more

And now your nightmare is coming true
The crowd pounces upon you
And you can’t escape

We are polarised
We are atomised
Maybe you should know
Someone
Wanted to make us fight
One another

We have lost the sense of community
Racing past each other
Disconnected

No, you don’t have to try
To deny
It’s not your place to be
anymore

No, you don’t have to try
To deny
it’s not your fight
it’s not your war

It is now.

So
What’s it like
To stick your head in the sand
To choose ignorance
"I've nothing to hide," you say
"It’s all okay and fine"

Being tracked
Being parsed
Being mined
Modified
Being used
Being searched
Being lied to
Monetised
All that we’ve got
Is not for free at all

When this life for everyone becomes too hard
What we must give in return is a bit too much
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At your service, Sir

We have the right to defend ourselves
We have the right to not accept
Self-consciousness - this is where we could start

Being constantly
Assessed
Profiled
Sorted
Measured
JUST CHOKE ON IT AT LAST!

I’ve nothing to hide
I simply hate your style

But I know
I’ve failed again
There’s numbness on my face

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I have nothing to hide

It wasn’t my best day, today
I came back full of anger
Data transfer to my brain
I assume
It was not perfect

Letters showed up on the screen
Testing knowledge acquisition
Black was white and white was black
Fake dreams
Alternative visions

Headline drew attention
Then I lost my temper
Again
Miscommunication
Everyday life-long experience

In a constant lie
In a constant lie
I live
Cannot separate
Days from nights

Crowd psychology went well
I relieved all my frustration
Contributed to destroying
Probably
Another innocent soul

Headline drew attention
Then I lost my temper
Again

In a constant lie
In a constant lie
I live
Cannot separate
Days from nights

In a constant lie
In a constant lie
I live
Can no longer tell
Days from nights

I’ve tried different ways
So many times
I’ve tried to run away
Hide behind makeup
And when I felt this time it would be okay
You grabbed me by the hair
and threw into the same cage
Again

You are classified
Do not even try (you said)
No one will believe you
Just like I believed you, my love
Do not play with fire

I’ve tried many times
In different ways
To get out from the drawer
With your favourite tag
And when I felt this time it would be all right
You decided to lead me on your "right path”
Teach me humility

You are classified
Do not even try (you said)
I loved you
So you need to feel my hate for you now
You asked for it yourself

***

I went out into the street
Wasn’t here for a long time
Everyone’s divided
Extreme right or extreme left
That’s the only choice

And this goddamn anger
Coming from every corner
I am not surprised
Not happy either
Because how much can you bear being fucking lied to

Give me another sentence
And remember that it should be smart
To make me stop
To cool me down
But maybe I don’t want to wait for better times
Maybe I don’t want to listen to what’s best for me
When I will try

Another pop-philosopher
Tells you how you should live
By starting from getting to know yourself
Wow, BFD, indeed
Tell me something I don’t know about
Tell me something that doesn’t sound
Like you just finished high school
And learned by heart
A few well-known quotes from your favourite browser

Give me another sentence
And remember that it should be smart
To make me stop
To cool me down
But maybe I don’t want to take another pill
Maybe meditation app is not for me
Maybe I don’t need your coaching course
Hearing that is all my fault

For it matters
Where I was born
And where I live
What’s my gender
What’s the colour of my skin
We don’t have equal chances
Everything doesn’t depend on me
No, oh no
Stop saying that
Stop saying that
Stop saying that

***

The place where I belong
A bit of my own accord
When I feel calm and comfortable
Where I don't care anymore
If you believe my words
Yes, I am tired of your requirements

When your bar is set too high
I’m sorry, I’m getting out
Of this race
Don’t want to take my part

When your bar is set too high
I’m sorry, I’m checking out
Of this race
Don’t want to share my part

I don’t have to be the best
Feel pressure all the time
„The winner takes it all” is not my thing
Stop comparing me
To someone else’s dreams
Let me stay in the place where I belong

For your bar is set too high
I’m sorry, I’m getting out
Of this race
Don’t want to take my part

For your bar is set too high
I’m sorry, I’m checking out
Of this race
Don’t want to share my part

For your bar is set too high
I’m sorry, I’m getting out
Of this race
Don’t want to take my part

So you’ve always been on my side
You’ve always been my "friend"
And suddenly you don’t like it
That I started doing something else
This is not what you expect
So you feel
You have to wake me up
You have to make me aware
Tell me I lost my way

You are not my judge
You are not my God
You are not my own CEO
Why don’t you simply shut your mouth
And take your poison from my soul
Far away

Why do you want to tell me what to do?
Who do you think you are?
Do you not realise it’s my choice, it’s my life,
Yeah, draw me a chart, make an action plan, outline a strategy
Educate me, cause I clearly
Don’t understand
And you’re so clever

You are not my judge
You are not my God
You are not my own CEO
Why don’t you simply shut your mouth
And take your poison from my soul
Far away
Far away

I told myself I don’t need it
Scrolling watching reading
I told myself I don’t need it
To know what kind of world we live in

I shut myself off from
The whole broken world
I told myself I don’t need it
That this is not any of my concern

But the truth is that I cannot live without you
And I should do something
Cannot just stand and watch

I told myself I don’t need it
And I can numb this feeling
And I can hole up deep in the woods
Far from everyone

And then I realised
I’d lived in self-denial
And didn’t even try
To understand
To recognise

Just want to be close to you
I want to feel you close to me
I want to be close to you

I’m sick and tired
Of our fighting
On a minefield
Of the social distance warnings
The future is in our hands
But first
Let’s
Unsubscribe the ones who make us hostile
Unsubscribe the ones who make us hostile
Unsubscribe the ones who make us hostile

I want to feel you close to me
Cause I still believe
I will find the answer
But I already know
I need you for
The feeling of
Being complete for the first time

But the truth is that I cannot live without you
And I should do something
Cannot just stand and watch

I told myself I don’t need it
Scrolling watching reading
I told myself I don’t need it
To know what kind of world we live in

And then I realised
I’d lived in self-denial
And didn’t even try
To understand
To recognise

Just want to be close to you
I want to feel you close to me
I want to be close to you
Being complete for the first time