[Intro]
Morning light through café glass
Faces glow, but no one asks
Fingers scroll through silent noise
Everyone here… avoiding voice
No one speaks, no one sees
Yet no one’s truly left to be
We are here, but far away
Living lives on display
[Verse 1]
Ten-hour days, no pause, no breath
Chasing signals, racing depth
Messages that never end
But meaning slips through every hand
I reply, I react, I move
But what of me is really true?
At night I stare into the dark
And wonder where I lost my spark
[Pre-Chorus]
Was I living, or just keeping pace?
Was I present, or just in place?
[Chorus]
We are busy, we are fast
Running hard, but never last
Connected to a million souls
Still a stranger to our own
We don’t stop, we don’t feel
We forget what’s even real
In a world that never slows—
Do we live, or just reload?
[Verse 2]
Thirty minutes for one photo
Not to keep, but just to show
A version shaped for other eyes
A curated truth… a quiet lie
We don’t just live, we perform
Hide the chaos, shape the form
Split between the seen and true
Who am I… and which is you?
[Pre-Chorus]
Every smile has a frame
Every self… a different name
[Chorus]
We are busy, we are fast
Running hard, but never last
Connected to a million souls
Still a stranger to our own
We don’t stop, we don’t feel
We forget what’s even real
In a world that never slows—
Do we live, or just reload?
[Bridge]
The modern world does not lack information
It lacks attention
It does not lack connection
It lacks presence
It does not lack a thousand ways to live
It lacks the feeling… of being alive
[Verse 3]
City lights and endless streams
Crowded roads, isolated dreams
A thousand lives brush side by side
But never truly collide
Each a system, closed, contained
Running loops we can’t explain
So many faces pass me by
But no one meets another eye
[Breakdown]
Side by side, but worlds apart
Noise outside, silence in heart
Every step, a separate line
No shared rhythm, no shared time
[Final Chorus]
We are faster than before
Yet we’re not sure what for
Building lives we can’t define
Losing self in space and time
We can reach across the earth
But forget what presence’s worth
In the echo of it all—
Do we stand… or do we fall?
[Outro]
Maybe nothing here is wrong
Maybe we just don’t belong
To the speed, the endless stream—
Or the version that we seem
In a world of endless ties
And a thousand mirrored lives…
Tell me softly, tell me true—
Are you still… connected to you?
