Modern Failure

by @lbrewington

Liner Notes

Was thinking about how modern society has left some people behind and what the very dire consequences of such actions are. With our modern advancements we still seem to lag behind socially. Maybe emotions are harder than math. Who is to be blame, the individual or the society that discards them? If only life where so black and white.

#acousticonetake

Lyrics

am - em - dm - am
profile pictures
all sunglasses
fish on a wire

swiping right
no matches tonight
only ads for platinum

two bedroom apartment
one occupant
microwave dinner

fm - c - g - am
there's a glass raised
in the halls of a empty home
embittered still
to the very end

the toast rings out
to all the lonely souls
another pointless loss
without love

barren walls
tattered sofa
cable television

wake up early
nine to five
twenty years, same damn thing

[chorus]

he's planned it out
to the very day
no goobyes, no friendly waves

boxed in
by society
unable to be, who he should be

[chorus]

Comments

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This made me smile in a rather rueful way right from the start. I guess it's the "human, all too human" aspect of the song that hit me. Anyway, I found this moving. Love the way you play and sing
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Ooh, I really liked this, being no stranger to the swipe-right-left phenomenon myself. Great job! ❤️
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a bleak portrait of the lonely person in a stone-hearted world. the options are so meager and limited there is no option for breaking out into a colorful reality of ones former ambitions and dreams. confined to this dull existence, he trudges through the drudgery of the day and night.
[FAWM]