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Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet

submitted by eric3579

1 decade 5 years 6 months 2 weeks ago

Sunlight coming through the haze
No gaps in the blind
To let it inside
The bed is unmade
Some music still plays

TV, yeah it's always on
The flicker of the screen
A movie actress screams
I'm basking in the shit flowing out of it

I'm stoned in the mall again
Terminally bored
Shuffling round the stores
And shoplifting is getting so last year's thing

X-box is a god to me
A finger on the switch
My mother is a bitch
My father gave up ever trying to talk to me

Don't try engaging me
The vaguest of shrugs
The prescription drugs
You'll never find
A person inside

My face is mogadon
Curiosity
Has given up on me
I'm tuning out desires
The pills are on the rise

How can I be sure I'm here?
The pills that I've been taking confuse me
I need to know that someone sees that
There's nothing left I simply am not here

I'm through with pornography
The acting is lame
The action is tame
Explicitly dull
arousal annulled

Your mouth should be boarded up
Talking all day
With nothing to say
Your shallow proclamations
All misinformation

My friend says he wants to die
He's in a band
They sound like Pearl Jam
The clothes are all black
The music is crap

In school I don't concentrate
And sex is kinda fun
But just another one
Of all the empty ways
Of using up a day

How can I be sure I'm here?
The pills that I've been taking confuse me
I need to know that someone sees that
There's nothing left I simply am not here

Bipolar disorder
Can't deal with the boredom

14 Comments

this song seems to sum up a generation pretty well...
thing is, they are living too much in their heads, these kids...
they need to be made to get busy in the tangible world.
plant a garden and take care of it, build something with a parent, have physical projects with real results...
otherwise, yeah they get lost in expectations, confrontations, psychedelics, powerful emotions...there is much more to life and if they don't have it there is a void.

was I the only one hoping for a Public Enemy cover?

lol good ol' meat-tank xbox controller

Reminds me of
http://www.videosift.com/video/Justice-Stress-new-video

Oh and *dark, non?

Adding video to channels (Dark) - requested by Eklek.

itsmissmia says...

All I can say is, WOW! What an important topic. There are so many of these kids living like this and most people look at them and just think they're deviants. Never mind that their parents and doctors are the dope pushers. Parents are told to teach their kids about "illicit" drugs but who's teaching the parents about the REAL effects PRESCRIPTION DRUGS have on their kids? A doctor tells them to give their kids a pill and parents think it's the cure-all. WAKE UP MOM AND DAD! Kids need more than a pill...they need PARENTS!!!

*teens

Adding video to channels (Teens) - requested by Eklek.

Love this song. *promote

Self promoting this video back to the front page; last published Monday, October 20th, 2008 2:00pm PDT - promote requested by original submitter eric3579.

My friend says he wants to die
He's in a band
They sound like Pearl Jam
The clothes are all black
The music is crap

Is the singer referring to himself here?

therealblankman

I for one welcome our new Blank overlords.

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