Normalization Blues

I can feel my brain a-changin'

Acclimating to the madness

I can feel my outrage shift into a dull,

Despondent sadness

I can feel a crust growing over my eyes

Like a falcon hood

I've got the normalization blues

This isn't normal, this isn't good

I'm detached and I'm distracted

All keyed up but unproductive

Vacillating between being

All excited and disgusted

And then dozing lackadaisically

In this bubble

Where I've made my mental home

Connection's more important now

Than it ever was

But I'd rather be alone

And when we talk about the president

We're either pissed off or we're giggling

About an atrocity he's committing

Or some stupid shit he's tweeting

He's a symptom and a weapon

Of the evil men who really run the show

The ones who melt down human beings

Into money like a cruel Sorcerer's Stone

And they try to divide us,

And largely they're succeeding

'Cause they've undermined our confidence

In the news that we are reading

And they make us fight each other

With our faces buried deep inside our phones

Rest in peace to the Information Age,

Those days are now long dead and gone

I can see the weather changing

And I can feel the soul decaying

I'm observing drastic changes

In the way we're all behaving

I can see the sooth they're saying

Furthermore, I could believe it to be true

Connection's more important now

Than it ever was

Buddy, what are you gonna do?

This is the golden age of dickotry

Probably the last golden age of anything

And the ugliest word

In the English language is "Anthropocene"

Good luck everybody

Good luck!