[verse 1] Look, the flicker in the iris is a digital virus We’re breeding a virus, but nobody’s calling the doctors to guide us Just a silent house, a quiet mouse, clicking on a screen While the innocence is eroding in the glow of the green It’s a modern-day lobotomy, a technological robbery Watching the youth dissolve into a pixelated property I’m pacing the hallway, I’m checking the door, I’m losing the fight While they’re feeding their souls to a box in the middle of the night No more scraped knees, just cracked glass and a battery drain A systematic hijacking of the human brain We used to climb trees, now we’re climbing the feed Planting a synthetic, artificial, desperate seed I try to scream, but the frequency is jamming the throat While we’re all just sinking on a fiber-optic boat It’s a cold world, colder when the light is artificial And the damage that we’re doing is becoming quite official. [chorus] Staring at the sun in the palm of a hand Sifting through the static just to find a grain of sand The signal is the oxygen, the frequency is deep While the shepherd’s busy scrolling and the flock is fast asleep Yeah, we’re shouting in the vacuum, praying from a far Trying to find the gravity when we don’t know where we are. [verse 2] The chalkboard’s a tablet, the teacher’s a stream We’re raising a generation inside of a dream But it’s a nightmare, masked by a filter and a chime We’re killing the wonder while we’re killing the time Look at 'em, heads down, shoulders hunched in a bow To a digital deity that they don’t even know It’s a choreographed chaos, a scripted reality While we’re sacrificing focus for a false sense of vitality I see the reflection of a ghost in the screen A shell of a person where a spirit should’ve been They don’t want the truth, they just want the engagement A psychological prison, a voluntary encagement The father is a shadow, the mother is a ghost While the algorithm’s acting as the ultimate host And the kids? They’re just data, they’re just numbers on a chart While the silicon is slowly replacing the heart. [chorus] Staring at the sun in the palm of a hand Sifting through the static just to find a grain of sand The signal is the oxygen, the frequency is deep While the shepherd’s busy scrolling and the flock is fast asleep Yeah, we’re shouting in the vacuum, praying from a far Trying to find the gravity when we don’t know where we are. [bridge] Unplug the tether, feel the weather on the skin But the door is double-locked from the pressure locked within It’s a buffet of the vapid, it’s a banquet of the void Watch the architecture crumble that we carefully employed The lessons don't exist, the problem within a link The water’s in the well but we’ve forgotten how to drink. [chorus] Staring at the sun in the palm of a hand Sifting through the static just to find a grain of sand The signal is the oxygen, the frequency is deep While the shepherd’s busy scrolling and the flock is fast asleep Yeah, we’re shouting in the vacuum, praying from a far Trying to find the gravity when we don’t know where we are. [outro] Check the battery life. The percentage is dropping. But nobody’s looking up. Nobody’s stopping. Just a glow in the dark. Just a spark in the wire. Feeding the family to the electric fire. Keep scrolling. Sleepwalking. Log off.