c.o.n.f.o.r.m.

this instrument can teach

it can illuminate

and yes it even can inspire

but it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends

otherwise

it's nothing but wires and lights in a box

running

rushing

blood spilling

tears are pouring

it seems the well is never filled

mentally exhausted

overworking

take another pill

corporations stacking billions

these corporations manipulating our daily lives

got us exasperated working through all of our days and nights

sacrifices your leisure time to end up at a 9 to 5

to work until you are deceased without a single moment for peace

never still

it just keeps rolling down the hill

nobody tries to stop it

get you killed

you'll be a trending topic

a cog up in the wheel

a sacrifice to the being built

caught up in the matrix

virtual digital minds

we don't memorize phone numbers or directions when

we drive

we don't even have to go shopping to get our food and buy things

we only push a button

we don't even have to try

can't even lift an eye up away from my phone

talking to instagram live just so i don't feel alone

flooding my twitter feed with my deepest feelings and thoughts

my page is public but my sense of conversation is blocked

i validate myself through followers just to feel important

instead of living in the moment

i much rather record it

nobody knows my first name but know my snapchat handle

i'm just a millennial trapped in social media standards

c-o-n-f-o-r-m

i see oppression within an effort

c-o-n-f-o-r-m

to own the rights of my expression

c-o-n-f-o-r-m

i see expression

influence

the feeling

c-o-n-f-o-r-m

to wipe our opinions

we are the meaning of conforming

shelling out melodies and feverish frequencies

boardroom salaries

they pay me in exposure

no penalties when they're late paying me

no benefits seen

just foreclosure

advertise that revenue

everything that you consume

all for them

less for you

they do all the sorting

try to figure out ways to make you feel important

while they keep robbing you blind

hold extortion

in some sense that's the power of the internet

on the other hand

that's a perfect formula for the dark side

this is our generation's form of nuclear power

how we deal with this will be the stuff in history

c-o-n-f-o-r-m

i see oppression within an effort

c-o-n-f-o-r-m

to own the rights of my expression

c-o-n-f-o-r-m

i see expression

influence

the feeling

c-o-n-f-o-r-m

to wipe our opinions

we are the meaning of conformity