They caught us in the lights
Wired up through the night
To see what really bites
They stuck us on the screen
Strung out on dopamine
The new technology

I made a portrait of my face and waited for engagement
And stood in a crowd alone with no patience
Anxiously pick up disappointingly put down
Wireless IVs clamping their foot down
That digital footprint
Delete it or keep it you’re hooked and you need it
‘Cause you’re just a dope fiend
Wired up on dopamine
Light beings hooked on the lights
Posting a life that was blinded by pixels
Fucked from these badly formed rituals
Laying awake wired to our screens
Delusionally masking the inner voice screams
I’m screaming, I’m screaming
A crack fiend with a cracked screen
Birth control they aren’t having sex
They’re wanking sat at screens instead
And Missy don’t want no 2 second man
Swipe, swipe, swipe the consumption of man
Was this the plan?

They caught us in the lights
Wired up through the night
To see what really bites
They stuck us on the screen
Strung out on dopamine
The new technology

Where will your reinvention of humanity take us in your story of progress?
Smart phone notifications and stress that is grotesque 
Automatically generated content and fake news 
Personalised news feeds and highly optimised interaction loops
Games, bots, porn dopamine
Anthropocene, A.I. and altered genes 
Echo chambers, occultist dreams
Insulting things through revolting memes 
Doomsday prepper’s with love letters to whoever
They happen to reach in a fallout of terror 
Getting stabbed by a posh kid, did you see what that Toff did? 
He wet up a man and grew his ego through gossip 
Is it a bird or a plane?
You know you’re insane
In an altered state of reality you played a human in a game 
And in that game you asked a question
And the question you’d state was 
Where will your reinvention of humanity take us?

They caught us in the lights
Wired up through the night
To see what really bites
They stuck us on the screen
Strung out on dopamine
The new technology
The new technology