"Normal: The Generation of People Who Want To Die"
By L. Stone
Call me crazy, say I'm wrong,
Because people are going judge like they have all along,
But I believe we live in a society that's normalized apathy.
They feed us pills to keep us in a self-contained psychopathy
When it all gets to be too much,
The doctor signs his name—
Tells you to take 2 in the evening
So that you don't have to feel pain.
So that you can be
What they deem to be
'Normal' again
Even if it means you have to be sick and tired and when
You feel like the burden is too tough
You reach out to a computer screen
Because you just want to feel real love.
And we measure love in likes and texts
Word bubbles on the screen
And when they don't reply
It's onto the next.
But you see the problem doesn't lay in our brain chemistry
We live in a society filled with basic needs met with inadequacy.
To feel something is what makes us human,
And god I'd rather feel something than nothing,
Even anxiety looming, a sense of doom, man—
Than to be an android
Thumbed over and destroyed
Taken advantage of by a pharmaceutical void.
And here, I'm just trying to be real,
But maybe I can say something that's just going to make you feel
Because part of life isn't just the good,
It's that essence of being human,
To keep going even when you don't know if you should.
It makes sense why you feel sad,
The way we've normalized talking to ourselves makes us feel real bad,
We joke around saying "life sucks,"
We minimize it and say, "yeah, but no one gives a fuck."
As if we never had a voice or a choice
Or a say what goes on in our heads,
Let the marketers decide for us,
And we're better off dead.
I'm not telling you how to feel,
But it's up to you to decide what's real.
To live or to die,
That is the question,
But there's just one more thing that I forgot to mention.
If you let someone else talk to you
The way you talk to yourself,
I know you'd rather be around anyone else.
Not around the person who makes you want to hide,
And maybe that's why we live in a generation of people
That just want to die.
About the Creator
L Stone
Singer/Song Writer & Blogger here to help inspire ideas for your reality.
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