Agnes Manners - Sincerity In Retrograde

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Social media culture burgeoning
Form a line and pave the way
For the teenagers with the tattooed faces
Sincerity in retrograde.

“Spiritual enlightenment”
Bringing constant social climate change
And impostor syndrome
Weighty humble-bragging tomes
Inner peace is a bloodied stone.

So tell me what you see
Are we any closer to being happy
So tell me what it means
Are we more than slaves to technology.

New dependency, white pyramid dreams
New intimacy complexities
We’re bleeding cash on bougee shit
This white upper-middle entitlement
Is a struggle beyond our wildest dreams.

Imaginary hostility
Ubiquitous immobility
Instant gratification
Generation notification
A’int nobody gonna miss us now.


I never learned to play piano
But I can craft a song
With the little skill I’ve got
As could anyone
And that’s not enough
I wanted nuance and some credibility.

Standing by the shelf
Taking in a vanguard page
Shoulders of the greats
Are stood upon to quell dismay
But this place
Keeps dragging me back down to stay
With the mirror man
The earth is an unbearable weight.

Get yourself a drink
Relax, just breathe
Why do you take it all so seriously?
So lighten up, you morbid fuck
Or nothing ever gonna be good enough
But don’t we like it here?
It’s such a lovely little cage
Sincerity in retrograde.

Written by:
MATTHEW JEFFERY GRAVOLIN, SHANE ARRON EDWARDS

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