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following (since we learned to tweet)

from Intimacy in Delay <Transmissions from the Au Room> by LRAD

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This song deals with the plague that is social media addiction & the fact that for everyone of us who follows or is following one another, the state is indeed following us as well.

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gonna follow me
gonna follow me or what
gonna follow me
gonna follow you
following
got a following
got a following
yeah
I got a following-
for I don't speak
i've learned to tweet
and I don't need this body
as my mind melds with machine
no I don't speak
I don't make a peep
and I dare not show my body
before the words so pristine
laid out adorning where I stand
with the need for everyone to know where I am
need them to see what I see
the willful fear of letting known every single thing that yr thinking
in the desperate grasp of ladders scrolled for sinking
in a world where everyone seems drunk even when they're not drinking
for they're all falling following
for were all falling following
might as well cut our tongues out
its not like we need em
and we might as well rot the guts out
not like we can afford to feed em
for it seems we've forgotten how to speak
since we learned to tweet
and we lay to waste our bodies
as we yield to these machines-
follow me follow you following
and I might as well cut my tongue out
cuz soon I wont need it
and I might as well rot these guts out
not like I can even see them fit
anymore
for I can no longer speak
and i've forgotten how to breathe
and from down here on my knees
I lay bare this body
and beg for release
from the efforts of trying to seem unique
that lays bare all that is to be
& be seen
by the wrong kind of being
to the meaning of being free
for we think this free
this isn't free
you follow me I follow you followin' me & I'm followin' you too...
you follow me I follow you following; me & they're following you
they're followin' me too
when did we stop fighting and start following
we're all just following...

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from Intimacy in Delay <Transmissions from the Au Room>, released July 8, 2015
Written, performed & recorded by A. Trautman

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