Superficial Paradise

Blue sunshine 
You like
All day long and all night 

Lawn chair 
For one
On your sinking island 

Eyes are dry
Neck is weak
Bite your tongue
Bite your teeth
Dependency 
Attention seek
But you’re never pleased 

Wrong is right
In your superficial paradise 
I die
Why don’t you just take a step outside the lie 
Why do you waste all your precious time
Lying in the light
Of your superficial paradise

You’ve become
The star 
Of your own universe 

A shame
Your brain
Is trained to like it 

Eyes are dry
Neck is weak
Bite your tongue
Bite your teeth
Dependency 
Attention seek
But you’re never pleased 

Wrong is right
In your superficial paradise 
I die
Why don’t you just take a step outside the lie 
Why do you waste all your precious time
Lying in the light
Of your superficial paradise

The dumbing down of society is most evident in the slow decay of content in the influential media, 30 second sound bites, now down to 10, lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance

Wrong is right
In your superficial paradise 
I die
Why don’t you just take a step outside the lie 
Why do you waste all your precious time
Lying in the light
Of your superficial paradise