Life, Living It

from War Against War III by Nyentek

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Passive eyes, not looking up
Watching ground, detached at best
Parents bought them everything
But left out what matters most

Everyone deserves a living
One with comfort, home, food, healthcare
But to augment this with excess often substitutes
Things that only human caring gives

This is life
Are you living it?
Can you say you feel?
This is life
Are you living it?
Is your experience real?

Images flash before our eyes
Hundreds by the minute
World consumed by white noise
What is our place in it?

Consumers marketed to by ads
Whose influence is more than our dads
Spending hours with plastic screens
Less so time with our family

This is life
Are you living it?
Can you say you feel?
This is life
Are you living it?
Is your experience real?

It would be a joy to live in quiet solitude
A place in which it’s okay to be silent
But in our culture it’s not right to take a pause
Only if it seems that we are working
Shun the TV, turn it off
I don’t need more time with talking heads
Opinion mistaken for fact in the medium
Shouldn’t have to say they don’t make sense

Context exempt, self-possessing
Content not even thematic
Let’s use shock to raise our ratings
And then fake our caring
Images, not words inflated
Knowledge shoved below the fluff
Clearly I need one more segment
Never had enough

This is life
Are you living it?
Can you say you feel?
This is life
Are you living it?
Is your experience real?
This is life
Are you living it?
Can you say you feel?
This is life
Are you living it?
Is your experience real?

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from War Against War III, released April 23, 2018

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Nyentek Chicago, Illinois

An “adventurer in electronic sounds-poetry” whose music is “mind-bending, at times blissfully bizarre.”

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