1. |
www.
00:42
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Congratulations!
You are today’s lucky visitor
Endless possibility
Runs the length of a loading bar
And all you have to do
Is click here
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Chilling, scrolling
Doing nothing
I go online
The days slip by
Pull up some pics
From times I’ve lived
Back when I did something
I keep waiting
For something to happen
Liking, faving
Never posting
Nothing to say
Wasting away
I’ve lived, but I’m stuck
Between two lives
Not living, killing time
I keep waiting
For something to happen
I’m clicking some link
When it’s done loading
I will be complete
Baptized by phone
In the screen-white glow
Just me alone at home
I keep waiting
For something to happen
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3. |
IRL
04:31
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I’m sitting in my room
And ghosting all my friends
Imagining a life
So cosmopolitan
A map up on the screen
Of some other continent
A picture of a world
To dream of living in
A party on a roof
Aristocratic friends
A reference deftly made
A comfort in my skin
But again
My phone is buzzin’
And I’m back
In real life
When will I encounter
What I see in my mind
In real life?
When will I become
Who I’ve been being online
In real life?
Waiting for the moment
When it finally aligns
In real life
In real life
Upon a smaller screen
I level up again
I’m off to save the world
Some 80 hours in
But out there in real life
My childhood best friend
Is just the answer to
A security question
At least I signed in alright
I’ll move some numbers tonight
Because the rent’s due
Bills too, on loop for life
When will I encounter
What I see in my mind?
When will I become
Who I’ve been being online?
Waiting for the moment
When it finally aligns
In real life
In real life
When will I encounter
What I see in my mind
In real life?
When will I become
Who I’ve been being online
In real life?
Waiting for the moment
When it finally aligns
In real life
In real life
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4. |
There in Your Room
02:58
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Painting the walls of your room
I cut my hand and started bleeding
A drop of my blood got on the wall
But you didn’t see me
I didn’t cover the mark
Or clean it off, or do anything
I guess a part of me believed
That it could keep me
There in your room
You said that I was the moon
You were the sun, and we were separate
But for a while we were there
Sharing an orbit
Now I just see you online
Pixels in someone else’s photo
Scrobbling songs I’ve never heard
There in your bedroom
Painting the walls of your room
You covered over everything
I think I finally believe
I’ll never again be
There in your room
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5. |
Guy Online
04:29
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Every day I photographed my face
Like the guy online I sought to replicate
Everybody goes online
And snaps a pic from time to time
But I don’t know
I think that I was onto something sacred
Then, when my computer died
The pixel-painted face
In every picture I had taken
Was erased
The moments aren’t immortalized
The data don’t exist
The days keep slipping
Futile to resist
Yesterday I photographed my face
(I’m taking pictures of me, you’re taking pictures of you)
From the angle that I learned on MySpace
(coastTOcoast533)
Turn the filters up and down
Maybe I will find out how
To stay alive forever
In this gallery curated
To present my stronger side
And leave out all the rest
The highlights of my life
Are on the internet
The moments are memorialized
The data still exists
Just keep me on your drive
And I’ll persist
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6. |
One and Only
03:24
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Whatdya know?
They’re at it again
I’m drowning ‘em out
The best that I can
Turning my head
Back over my shoulder
Dreaming of being alone
A place of my own
Now I lay me down
Nobody beside me
Logging me out
And cutting my ties
Cuz I’m all I need
I’m my one and only
So why do I see you
When I close my eyes
And start to fall asleep?
Tell me again
Why I never left
And boarded a plane
That carried me east
To live upon a mountaintop
Away from everything
Now I lay me down
Nobody beside me
Logging me out
And cutting my ties
Cuz I’m all I need
I’m my one and only
So why do I see you
When I close my eyes
And start to fall asleep?
I’m all that I need
My one and only
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7. |
Maybe
03:07
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Scrolling down my feed
Filtered photos on my screen
I’m reminded of the places that I’m not
And I’ve got you on my phone
Thinking maybe when I’m home
I will find that what I’m hoping for comes true
The way you talk to me
Has got me thinking maybe
Maybe in a month
Or maybe in a year or two
Or maybe not at all
We will become
Asleep when you’re awake
And I’m dreaming of the day
When I dig a hole to Lansing from Hanoi
Some romantic comedy
Is filling my computer screen
And every time Meg Ryan speaks
Your face is all I see
And still you talk to me
And keep me thinking maybe
Maybe in a month
Or maybe in a year or two
Or maybe not at all
We will become
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8. |
Blood on the Mac
03:16
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With your face streaming to my rig
From your phone held up by a selfie stick
You begin to talk about my sin
And through the artifacts I catch
A tear upon your skin
Blood on the Mac
And I say I’ll be right back
You’re counting all our blessings
But I’m not keeping track
I could have sworn
We would not open this door
But I have been wrong before
With your voice on loop in my head
But your name missing from my texts
I begin to cut the cord again
And find it makes a bloody mess
To try to disconnect
Blood on the Mac
And I say I’ll be right back
You’re counting all our blessings
But I’m not keeping track
I could have sworn
We would not open this door
But I have been wrong before
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9. |
Inside My Screen
03:28
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I am a hoarder of eternities
Living in JPEGs and MP3s
In folders on a drive
Where nothing ever really dies
But is it me I see
Inside my screen?
Where do I end and I begin?
I’m counting the pixels of my skin
Before I digitize
What’s left of me tonight
Where do I end and I begin?
I’m singing the words to turn them
Into what’s immortalized
I’ll post it up online
And hoard it on a drive
Safe in the pixels of a frozen world
No fleeting moments are ever over
Just waiting for the eyes
Of some digital passerby
But is it me they’ll see
Inside my screen?
Where do I end and I begin?
I’m counting the pixels of my skin
Before I digitize
What’s left of me tonight
Where do I end and I begin?
I’m singing the words to turn them
Into what’s immortalized
I’ll post it up online
And hoard it on a drive
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10. |
.com
02:10
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Following the link
With boyish certainty
That I’ll find what I’ve been promised
At the end
An animated “congratulations”
Is leading me to find out
What I win
Claim your prize
Guy online
Everything
Will be fine
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