America Needs Therapy
Navigating Modern Chaos: America's Cry for Healing in John Lensing's Melody
Lyrics
I see the same things but I see them changing
The speaker observes familiar things but notices them changing over time.
It's hard to look at all I know and watch as it's just fading
It's difficult to witness what the speaker knows or values fading away.
Counting off the buckshot, another cowboy daydream
Referencing cowboy culture symbolically as a daydream, possibly hinting at nostalgia or a sense of lost dreams.
Screaming off the balcony I'm fine but meaning save me
The speaker outwardly claims to be fine but seeks meaning or salvation.
I see the struggle here see the time spent
Observing the struggle and time spent on various endeavors.
Wasted on so many things we'll wonder where the time went
Reflecting on time wasted on things that leave the speaker wondering about their significance.
How'd you get so positive, I barely got home
Comparing one's positivity to their own emotional state upon returning home, feeling less positive.
I'm sure there is love that's all around, but tonight I don't know
Acknowledging that love might exist but feeling uncertain or disconnected from it at the moment.
All of these kids with all of these phones
Commenting on the prevalence of technology (phones) and how despite being busy, people feel isolated.
We're all so busy but feel so alone
-All of these kids with all of these phones
-We're all so busy we're all so busy
-All of these kids with all of these phones
-We're all so busy but feel so alone
-All of these kids with all of these phones
-We're all so busy we're all so busy we're all so busy
-What have we forgotten what have we left broken
Questioning what's been forgotten or left broken, highlighting a lack of genuine communication.
That instead of talking through we just said we were joking
Suggesting a tendency to dismiss serious matters by passing them off as jokes.
Maybe we're getting better maybe I'm just hoping
Expressing hope for improvement but uncertain if change will come.
I'm not sure I have the time to wait for where we're going
Impatience about waiting for progress or change.
Maybe that's the problem, maybe that's the easy way
Suggesting that focusing on distant goals might be a problem rather than being present in the moment.
Spending our life staring off at something that is miles away
-Everything's a memory, or it is the moment
Contemplating the nature of experience, whether as memories or present moments and their ultimate significance.
Nothing else will matter here when all of this is over
-All of these kids with all of these phones
Reiteration of the theme of technology-induced busyness leading to isolation.
We're all so busy but feel so alone
-All of these kids with all of these phones
-We're all so busy we're all so busy
-All of these kids with all of these phones
-We're all so busy but feel so alone
-All of these kids with all of these phones
-We're all so busy we're all so busy we're all so busy
-I've been meditating but I've been drinking shower beers
Highlighting personal struggles (meditation and drinking) and a call for national therapeutic intervention beyond surviving.
America Needs Therapy to do more than just make it through the year
-I've been meditating but I've been drinking shower beers
-America Needs Therapy to do more than just make it through the year
-Yeah the whole world's caving in and I'm not not sure how it'll end
Expressing uncertainty about the world's future and how decisions are made by those in power.
With a bang or a flash or a bill that gets passed by some men
-Still I'm allowed to feel happy, I'm allowed to feel fine
Asserting the right to feel happiness without constant guilt.
I don't need to feel guilty all of the time
-I know that I'm trying I know that I care
Recognizing personal efforts to change and learn despite societal resistance or opposition.
And I'm learning I'm learning I'm learning I swear
-Cause they don't want us to change anything
Calling out external forces that aim to perpetuate hate and conflict for financial gain.
They want us to hate
-And the time that we spend bickering
-Is just time they have money to make
-So we're allowed to feel happy, we're allowed to feel fine
Reaffirming the right to feel content without being burdened by unnecessary guilt.
It doesn't help just feeling guilty all of the time
-Yeah I know that we're trying I know that we care
Acknowledging continuous efforts to learn and evolve despite challenges.
So we're learning we're learning we're learning I swear
-Oh I swear
An oath or declaration emphasizing the sincerity of the speaker's intentions to learn and change.
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