Jamie Lenman - One Of My Eyes Is A Clock

I don't want to live my life
from the outside looking in
through a camera phone lense
surely that makes no sense

how can you enjoy yourself
*if you're always auditioning for
an online fashion parade,
a ghastly, grinning, gurning cavalcade?

Push your friends together
*And all adopt a glassy smile
Click and send so everyone
Knows you're having all this fun

We don't go to parties anymore
*We go to huge, non-paid photoshoots
So everyone can advertise
*Their impressive, exciting happy lives

When did we get
Stuck in this whole vain mindset
Pimping our moments on the internet?

movie of me, a timeline for all to see
Compile your own documentary

Even I know, and I've a great big fat ego
I'm not the star of a reality show

I'm no one. You're no one. They're no one, same as us
So let's just all get ourselves and

Turn that fucking thing off
If you're watching movies or a band
Why can no one concentrate?
It's not so hard unless you're eight
Couples now in restuarants
*Face to face, just tapping away
Inches from eachother
Why'd they even bother?
Good god, it's so odd
Can't they go sixty secs
Without reading or sending texts?

These things
Aren't pushing the human race on
They're turning
Us into navel-gazing morons

I'm frightened for our children

One day I may simply give way
And log onto say something inane
Take forever, Try be clever, type whatever,
Something like,

I'm sitting down or I just saw will smith murder a tramp. Yeah! I'm drowning myself one of my eyes is a clock

Written by:
JAMIE EDWARD LENMAN

Publisher:
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