Tenebris: The Complete Collection

24. Generations

We all are the digital generation.
We've all had our innocence taken. 
We all are digital orphans,
Always trying to feel like another person.

Growing up, it made me think
That everybody else had it better than me.
Growing up, never had someone there
To talk to all night and hold my hand.
Growing up I spent all my days
Living online, in a numbing haze.
Growing up I couldn't find
Peace of mind
Can't find my
Piece of mind
Where's my fucking mind?
It's like it's a landmine.
And you stepped on it now
So say goodbye
Cause the internet's here to take your mind
Away.

The truth was there, all along
The truth of why we close our eyes
And cry to songs
That were written long before our time.
That make us feel like we're out of time.
And it's because

We all are the digital generation,
We've all had our childhood taken.
We all are the digital offspring
Anybody else feel tired of searching?

Because I'm tired of every night
Instead of watching TV with my BFF's
I'm stuck in my room searching the interwebs.
I'm looking at the people living their best
Thinking "It's not fair, I wanna be like the rest."
I never had a place call my home,
No my place to call my fucking own.
Growing up, I felt stuck in hell
But now I see
That the only one who put me there was me.
Growing up I never had a close group
That I could share every single secret to.
I never had a girlfriend that I'd call on the landline
Now it's back to feeling like my mind's a landmine
I'm tired of feeling like I'm gonna blow
When I think of the life that could've been mine
The life I could have had
I should have had
It's fucking sad
And it's driving me fucking mad
Again.

I never went to a mall
And hung around all day along.
I never watched MTV and jammed along
With a band and a dream to write a song.
I never walked to school with the neighbor kids,
Never rode a skateboard like that sk8er kid .
Never watched Nick' dramas with the girl I like
Or any of the things that teens used to like.
At least that what it seemed
On every old TV
How everything was perfect
And the way things should be
With styles that clashed
And girls all acting bad
Like they tryna be Avril.
Was it really like this?
God, gimme an Advil.

Maybe they lied
Maybe I tried
To think that life in the past was a better life
Without all that shit that's crowding me.
Without all the phones that stole us away,
With friends we would see everyday
Instead of another face on a computer screen.
It makes me wanna scream
How we've gotten "advanced"
But we've blocked out the sense
Of friendship, of growth, of identity.
Remember when high school was a musical
Instead of feeling like a prison, how incredible!
Don't laugh at me, don't tell me it's a stretch
You know what I'm saying, you know I'm not crazy.

But I've seen this world
And I've seen our kind
And I hate the way
We try to fake and lie.
Live one life out here,
And the other online.
When we say we're happy,
Then go back to Snapchat
And see everyone else
Who's not trying to backtrack.
I wish I was never born sometimes,
Because this stupid time is killing my mind.
Actually wait, I take that back
I wish I was born in a 2000's track.
Because I know it's an illusion now
I know it's all fake
But all the songs
And the videos
Make it seem like a simpler day.
And I wish I could have lived there
Lived far away
Instead of today...

Now I see, we're the digital generation. 
Aren't we living life without a purpose? 
We are, we are digital children, 
Anybody else feel like they've been forsaken?

Anyone feel like their innocence was taken?