Gary Turk - Look Up !!! lyrics

i have 422 friends yet i am lonely i speak to all of them everyday yet none of them really know me the problem i have sits in the spaces between looking into their eyes or at a name into a screen i took a step back and opened my eyes i looked around and realized there's media we call social is anything but when we open up our computers and it's our doors we shut all this technology we have it's just an illusion community companionship - a sense of inclusion yet when you step away from this device of delusion you awaken to see a world of confusion a world where we're slaves to technology we mastered where information gets sold by some rich greedy ba*tards a world of self interest self image self promotion where we all share our best bits but leave out the emotion we're at our most happy when each experience we share but is it the same if no one is there? be there for your friends and they'll be there too but no one will be if a group message will do we edit and exaggerate crave adulation we pretend not to notice the social isolation we put our words into order until our lives are glistening we don't even know if anyone is listening being alone isn't the problem let me just emphasize: we read a book paint a picture or do some exercise you're being productive and present not reserved and recluse you'll be awake and attentive and putting your time to good use so when you're in public and you start to feel alone put your hands behind your head step away from the phone!!! you don't need to stare at your menu or your contact list just talk to one another learn to coexist!!! i can't stand to hear the silence of a busy commuter train where no one wants to talk for the fear of looking insane we're becoming unsocial it no longer satisfies to engage with one another and look into someone's eyes we're surrounded by children who since they were born have watched us living like robots and think it's the norm it's not very likely that you'll make the world's greatest dad if you can't entertain a child without using an ipad when i was a child i'd never be home i'd be out with my friends on our bikes we would roam i'd wear holes in my trainers and graze up my knees we'd build our own club house high up in the trees now the park is so quiet that it gives me a chill; see no children outside and the swings hanging still there's no skipping no hop scotch no church and no steeple; we're a generation of idiots smart phones and dumb people so look up from your phone shut down the display take in your surroundings make the most of today just one real connection is all it can take to show you the difference that being there can make be there in the moment that she gives you the look that you remember forever that's when love overtook the time she first held your hand or first kissed your lips the time you first disagreed but still loved her to bits the time you don't have to tell hundreds of what you've just done because you want to share this moment with just this one the time you sell your computer so you can buy a ring for the girl of your dreams who is now the real thing the time you want to start a family and the moment when you first hold your little girl and get to fall in love again the time she keeps you up at night and all you want is rest the time you wipe away the tears as your baby flees the nest the time your baby girl returns with her boy for you to hold the time he calls you granddad and makes you feel real old the time you take in all you've made just by giving life attention and how you're glad you didn't waste it by looking down in some invention the time you hold your wife's hand sit down beside her bed; you tell her that you love her lay a kiss upon her head she then whispers to you quietly as her heart gives a final beat that's she's lucky that she got stopped by that lost boy in the street but none of these times ever happened you never had any of this when you're too busy looking down you don't see the chances you miss so look up from your phone shut down those displays we have a finite existence a set number of days don't waste your life getting caught in the net; as when the end comes nothing's worse than regret i'm guilty too of being part of this machine: this digital world we are heard but not seen where we type as we talk and we read as we chat where we spend hours together without making eye contact so don't give into a life where you follow the hype give people your love don't give them your like disconnect from the need to be heard and defined go out into the world leave distractions behind look up from your phone shut down that display stop watching this video live life the real way!!!