HIVE MIND by Tom Jensen
Weaponized envy surrounds me
It’s everywhere I can’t break free
Negative energy now grounds me
As I’m watching the world so jealously
My high anxiety stresses me
I’m alone because I fear intimacy
So averse to pain I constantly retreat
I’m living like a zombie half asleep
Some say this outcome was expected
Look how everything’s grown hectic
Has anyone been left unaffected
By the eye in the sky’s hive mind collective?
Ostracized and placed outside the wall
Is where your fellow heroes fall
With lasting remains inside an unmarked grave
True to themselves at least one was saved
Unwilling to play a schizophrenic game
In which fact and fiction are one in the same
Where truth and lies are often seen on the same side
As enemies become friends and your rivals allies
You soon realize there’s a great divide
Between not only us and them but both you and I
Leaves you to scratch your head and wonder why…
Or maybe be just like them and not even try
And yet that seems like suicide
As you boldly claim, “Today’s not your day to die”
You then break out with a great big smile
Yelling “F*%k it all! I’ll walk the extra mile!”
Sacrifice for something
Bigger than myself
Maybe trade away the day today
To make tomorrow better for someone else
A flock of sheep can be a dangerous thing
Tended by a shepherd or led by a king?
History has recorded the tales of both
Carrying crosses and swearing oaths
All of that has led us to here
Where honor and faith
I watched disappear
Become replaced
With aggression and fear
It’s been happening so long
For years and years
Soon feels natural
So that nobody cares
You see me alone and standing here
Lying to myself hoping nobody hears
They gave up on me so I gave up on my peers
I’m the only one who knows…they’re still unaware
I turned around again…and there was no one there
Weaponized envy surrounds me
It’s everywhere I can’t break free
Negative energy now grounds me
As I’m watching the world so jealously
My high anxiety stresses me
I’m alone because I fear intimacy
So averse to pain I constantly retreat
I’m living like a zombie half asleep
Some say this outcome was expected
Look how everything’s grown hectic
Has anyone been left unaffected
By the eye in the sky’s hive mind collective?
Ostracized and placed outside the wall
Is where your fellow heroes fall
With lasting remains inside an unmarked grave
True to themselves at least one was saved
Unwilling to play a schizophrenic game
In which fact and fiction are one in the same
Where truth and lies are often seen on the same side
As enemies become friends and your rivals allies
You soon realize there’s a great divide
Between not only us and them but both you and I
Leaves you to scratch your head and wonder why…
Or maybe be just like them and not even try
And yet that seems like suicide
As you boldly claim, “Today’s not your day to die”
You then break out with a great big smile
Yelling “F*%k it all! I’ll walk the extra mile!”
Sacrifice for something
Bigger than myself
Maybe trade away the day today
To make tomorrow better for someone else
A flock of sheep can be a dangerous thing
Tended by a shepherd or led by a king?
History has recorded the tales of both
Carrying crosses and swearing oaths
All of that has led us to here
Where honor and faith
I watched disappear
Become replaced
With aggression and fear
It’s been happening so long
For years and years
Soon feels natural
So that nobody cares
You see me alone and standing here
Lying to myself hoping nobody hears
They gave up on me so I gave up on my peers
I’m the only one who knows…they’re still unaware
I turned around again…and there was no one there