Pictures and sounds
Assembled for you
And a new garden path you’re led through

With strings attached
Well what did you sell?
When you offered yourself from your shell

And your so tired

It went to far
It crossed the line
Embarrassment is such a state of mind
Were you double crossed by progress?

A loaded gun
And too much rope
Baby’s bludgeoned by another trope
Were you double crossed by progress?

And oh, there’s too much tension at the kitchen table

And on and on

A helpless mom
A feeble dad
And everyday feels like a hanging chad
Were you double crossed by progress?

Sedentary and your spiraling
In some anti-social media
Catatonic and despondent
In that digital dystopia

And on and on

And now it’s time that you go outside
An exorcism for a haunted mind
It’s time to bathe in that bright sunshine
The only way to pay them back in kind

Poisoned pixels
And all of this mess
You were double crossed by progress