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 meltdown human beings into money

Like a cruel sorcerer's stone

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 dick-otry

Probably the last golden age of anything

And the ugliest word in the English language is Anthropocene

Good luck, everybody

Good luck