"Loving Someone"

"Loving Someone"
by The 1975

My heart is telling me the telly isn't telling me anything I need but it needs to keep selling me
Besides celebrities lacking in integrity holding up the status quo instead of showing the kids that they matter, who are they gonna batter next? Just keep holding their necks and keep selling them sex - 'it's better if we keep them perplexed' - 'it's better if we make them want the opposite sex'

Disenfranchised young criminal minds in a car park beside where your nan resides are not slow, they've just never been shown that you should be loving someone

We're all human, we're just like you man
We're sentient or something or other I can't remember, whatever - we shouldn't have people afloat,
If it was safer on the ground, we wouldn't be on a boat

Charlatan telepathy exploiting insecurity and preying on the purity of grief and it's simplicity but I know that maybe I'm too skeptical, even Guy Debord needed spectacles
You see, I'm the Greek economy of cashing intellectual cheques and I'm trying to progress but instead of selling sex - I think I should be loving someone

I am forever in alongside the boys in jumpers on bikes from schools and cars with autumn leaves fallen sparse across mid-afternoon
She blazed about how 'cultural language is an operation system, a simple interface rendered feeble and listless when tested with a divitnty or a true understanding of the human condition.' I never did understand - the duality of art and reality - living life and treating it as such but with a certain disconnect to touch that cajoles at the artist with comfort and abandon. And between the spires and rolling roofs of the white city that orange, English light casts only one, singular shadow for you are not beside me but within me