Disconnect
Unplugging the Digital Matrix: Netherless' Provocative Reflections
Lyrics
Sign in
Initiating the online experience by signing in.
Sign in
Repetition emphasizes the routine of signing in.
Your online
Acknowledging the online presence.
Everyday's the same
Expressing monotony in the daily online activities.
Log out
Initiating the process of logging out.
Log out
Reiteration of the desire to disconnect, but still being connected.
But you're still plugged in
Highlighting the constant surveillance and scrutiny from others.
They see us
Recognition of being observed by an external entity.
They need us
Acknowledging the dependence of the observers on the observed.
We are data on their screens
Portraying individuals as data on screens for others.
They know us
Acknowledging the awareness of those observing.
They haunt us
Expressing the haunting nature of constant observation.
So who are we
Raising existential questions about identity in the online realm.
Tell me what's your nickname
Asking for a personal identifier in the online space.
Nickname
-Nickname
-Nickname
-Check your feed
Encouraging checking the online feed.
Check your likes
Highlighting the significance of social validation.
Check what's going on in your life
Encouraging staying informed about one's life through online updates.
Privacy
Describing privacy as a forbidden and elusive concept.
A forbidden fruit
Comparing love to a message in the digital realm.
Love sent in a message
Highlighting the artificiality of virtual emotions.
A virtual response
Describing the ephemeral nature of online responses.
I'll give you my heart
Offering a symbolic gesture of giving one's heart online.
Fuck
Expressing frustration and the need to disconnect.
I have to disconnect myself
Emphasizing the urgency to disconnect from the digital world.
I must get out
-I must get out
-I'm a file that can be deleted at any time
Depicting vulnerability as a digital file subject to deletion.
Any time
-Any time
-I have to disconnect myself
Reiterating the inability to be saved from the digital realm.
I can't be saved
-I can't be saved
-All of this is now a part of me
Describing the assimilation of the digital world into one's identity.
Part of me
-Part of me
-We can't disconnect
Stating the impossibility of complete disconnection.
Motherfucker
Expressing frustration intensively.
Thoughts converted
Describing the conversion of thoughts into digital words.
Words inserted
-Error 404
Indicating errors and the irreversible loss of data.
Data can't be restored
-Log out
Reiterating the need to log out and disconnect.
Fuck
-I have to disconnect myself
Emphasizing the urgency to escape the digital world.
I must get out
-I must get out
-I'm a file that can be deleted at any time
Reiterating vulnerability and the potential for deletion.
Any time
-Any time
-I have to disconnect myself
Expressing the inability to be saved from the digital entanglement.
I can't be saved
-I can't be saved
-All of this is now a part of me
Emphasizing the irreversible integration of the digital realm into one's being.
Secrets shared as passwords
Describing the sharing of intimate secrets online for connection.
To let us connect
-The system is our home
Portraying the digital system as the only home.
We can't disconnect
Stating the impossibility of complete disconnection from the digital world.
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