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One of My Eyes Is a Clock
Jamie Lenman
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I don't want to live my life from the outside
Looking in through a camera phone lens
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
So now, please everyone
Let's just all get over ourselves and turn those fucking things 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 restaurants
Face-to-face, just tapping away, inches from each other
Why'd they even bother? Good God, it's so odd
Can't they go 60 seconds without reading or sending texts?
These things aren't moving the human race on
They're turning us into navel-gazing morons
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I'm frightened for our children
One day, I may simply give way and log on to say something inane
Take forever, try to be clever, type whatever, something like this
"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"
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