Thinking Clearly

Um, whose mind is this?
Mine or the bot behind my timeline?
Can't lie, I've not got the time
To consider when exactly I began to figure
That the bigger the picture, the smaller I feel
It's good to restrict the field
It feels clearer, riles up my hate and agree with the image
The memes in my mind come to life and make
My opinion streamline like they were designed to do
Uproar
But what I could really show up for
Is box-fresh kicks and a Mark IV Supra
Who needs a past if you can't have a future?
Who needs a future? I want the features
I want approval, the horsemen are coming
Their hooves on the rooftops are brutal
Back to the feudal
You're worth your weight in disapproval

Thinking clearly
Staying focused, taking care
Thinking clearly
Staying focused, paying attention
Thinking clearly
Staying focused, taking care
Thinking clearly
Paying attention

Everything's gone and the battles I won
Weren't worth half the time I spent getting things wrong
I've become a repetitive clone
Who can't think, can't speak
Except to say I do what I want
When the heavens all sunk, the ground rose up
The rebels got drunk on the pound notes
Blood for the struggle, saying, "I'm out for justice"
Hobbled past luxury cars full of bougie giraffes
Whose eyes are unplugged appliances
Rock bottom prices, I'm not buying it
When everything's wrong like it's wrong
And you've settled for so much less
Than you thought you woulda done
When the treble's too loud
The frequencies drown out the deeper reserves
They're damned and now
Decency walks 'round murderous look in her eyes
Ready to die for whatever the program decides
She will benefit from being fed
No lies, no truth, just profitability
Which new cause? Which old cause?
Which press recall? Post it, don't get bored
You are what you want, time to want something else
The ads know you better than you know yourself

Thinking clearly
Staying focused, taking care
Thinking clearly
Staying focused, paying attention
Thinking clearly
Staying focused, taking care
Thinking clearly
Paying attention

The national demeanour is fever
Cash rules, the cleaner the counter, the deeper the stain
Another avatar aggressively public
You just need someone to freak you how you want it
Building the muscles up, can't hide the weakness
He's been lost in the mirror for weeks
Can't throw a thing away, bonafide hoarder
She's been blocking the source to find water
Can't beat the creeping suspicion
That nothing you do is effective or means a damn thing
The prime composition for social cohesion
With the one nation under a thumb system
Is general unease, wishing for more
Keep up appearances, boost your position
Feel like you're drowning? Get with it
Look at everyone else swimming
Get it how you can, get it on loan or credit
Get it on your phone so the drones update your records
All you need to do is embrace competition
Give yourself over, acquisition
The itching in your skin that will never be relieved
The void in your stomach that will never be filled
The more you put in, the bigger the thing grows
No deeper truth is revealed
Greed is a hell of a
These are Orwellian
Grieve for the relatives freed
Will their legacies be something better than we?
Never meant to be serving the devils of our century, please

I'm thinking clearly
Staying focused, taking care
I'm thinking clearly
I'm staying focused, I'm paying attention
I'm not thinking clearly
I'm not focused, can't take, um
Thinking clearly, I'm not, um
I'm paying, um