From the recording This Is Our World Now
I wrote this while trying to make sense of a world that increasingly feels engineered to capture our attention instead of our humanity. Rather than offering answers, the song asks a question: What happens when the systems we've built begin shaping us in return?
Lyrics
This Is Our World Now
Algorithmic manipulation
Capitulation our only option
A war we cannot win
The battlefield rages within
The ground beneath us moves
Buckles, twists, and swells
Rolling over bellies full and
Our appetite grows and grows
Is this the mess we made
Did we do it on our own?
Where’s the sign to Camelot?
It burned down long ago
Are we stuck with what we got?
With nowhere left to go
Looks that way from where I stand
This is our world now
This is our world now
(Our world now)
This is our world now
(Our world now)
Never satisfied, we gorge
On the souls of the ticking clock
That Beast swallowed the sword
We are not alone
Is this the mess we made
Did we do it on our own?
Where’s the sign to Camelot?
It burned down long ago
Are we stuck with what we got?
With nowhere left to go
Looks that way from where I stand
This is our world now
This is our world now
(Our world now)
This is our world now
(Our world now)
Algorithmic manipulation
Capitulation our only option
A war we cannot win
The battlefield rages within