Still connect, Still alone

 [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?