Fortune Cookies
[Verse 1]
Constantly berated with sensory information
From train station to phone
From every scrap of pavement
Don't know which things to focus on, I feel so jaded
Life's hand keeps pointing out every limitation
Most times I feel like, I'm an imitation
Just a ghost of a ghost remain the host of most
Ain't even close to invoke
My every sense is awoke
My seconds spent turned to smoke
Upon my lifespan I choke
I can smell flowers from Algernon
A sickly sweet essence of the decadence this built upon
I can see a man with the world on his shouldеr
Give a shrug but still soldier till the grеat beyond
And every time that I find myself slipping in this ooze
On the illusion I can choose, I cling to every bond
And every time I think that this is not a game
I can feel my sense of shame shouting I am wrong
[Chorus]
Colors and sounds
Try to push me round, me round
Try to bring me down, me down
Me down, me down
Lights and escapes
Try to keep me round, me round
Try to keep me down, me down
Me down, me down
[Verse 2]
Uninvited voices stay persistent in my life
What's fun to some is dumb to some
Annoyance and a vice
The common goal to fill the hole with
Whatever does entice
From little screens to make-believe
Distractions fill my life
I wanna breakaway my mind does say
To take me somewhere nice
But circumstance did implant my knowledge of what's right
How thia show works
Shawty show me what them strings do
Watch that mouth spew, every interest you is into
Is that what makes a person?
I've never been as certain
As these counterparts if that's a heart
Makes sense why recursion is in mind
I'm an amalgam of what this, shapes me to
But can I be the man I see inside this head confused
On the train back
A million messages spewed along the train tracks
The sponge inside my head prays for fortune cookie paybacks
Announcer's voice pushes to tell the stop along the line
Movements always cling to what's loudest at the time
[Chorus]
Colors and sounds
Try to push me round, me round
Try to bring me down, me down
Me down, me down
Lights and escapes
Try to keep me round, me round
Try to keep me down, me down
Me down, me down
