Another Way

Tapping the screen

With increasing desperation

Every sharp click

Brings a slowly sinking feeling

Scanning too fast

That’s another brain cell frying

Nothing to say

So thumbs down

And they will always be taking it back

They will always be trading the facts

We will always be taking the slack

Is there another way we go?

Sick of the rants

Type, swipe and time is racing

Back to the start

And await misinformation

Cursing the man

While he’s tracking our location

In all that we live

A malignant installation

Is taking it back

It will always be trading the facts

We will always be taking the slack

Is there another way we go

We go

And deep in the darkest hour

When’s all done

The slow fade

And droning hum

And I think about the time

Of stars across the desert

And I dream about the light

But they will

Always be taking it back

They will always be trading the facts

We will always be taking the slack

Is there another way we go?

They will always be taking it back

They will always be trading the facts

We will always be taking the slack

Is there another way we go?