J-Wong - Awakening lyrics

Click, drag, load, refresh Skim, skip, relax, stress Break, sleep, vacation, fun Wake up on a bus sipping on espresso on the run Wake up and check my messages Click for the news Five seconds to buffer the clip that I choose Tryna' just take a second, I wanna just take a ride Instead of climbing I wanna just be a person on the side Of the escalator, but getting there later makes me worry I was born in a rush and now I live my life in a hurry Sometimes I wish I could slow down, with everything that I know now The thirst is worse, and I'm cursed with the blessing of driving into unknown towns And I can't slow, because my mind's still running and When I do, I just speed back up again Hear a tick tock, and I check the clock And I didn't wake up early enough again Even if I take a break I'm fearing the worst Living life in the highest gear and my highest fear is reverse So I keep moving forward, stalling life is my worst fear Waking up feeling like I'm stuck on a hill in first gear Can't stop, I'm the original not a copy I may get tired but I never get sick of sippin' coffee Waking up in a haze, I'm dazed, paying for brew Waking up in sleep mode, straight hitting the snooze, I gotta Get on a bus for the start of the workday Proceeding to meetings where I got something to say And every day there, I stay there, to restate it clearer And when I leave I'm seeing grey hairs all over the mirror But I ain't got time for hedging all of my bets Finishing all of my problem sets and resolving my debts So I just, I keep grinding like a millstone does Because I'm feeling like a child, but I'm still grown, cuz' And nowadays I barely got the time to finish my dinner Tryna keep my flows cold like it's Ithaca winter Am I a winner? Or maybe just another participant Coming up on you fishermen like a bait and switch hittin' em So I put it in the oven at 350 and bake Know that I'd, never be dishin' anything I couldn't take I never fake it till I make it cuz' I'm already there And if you don't want to believe me well I don't really care, I just Click, drag, load, refresh Skim, skip, relax, stress Break, sleep, vacation, fun Wake up on a bus sipping on espresso on the run Wake up and check my messages, skim through the feed Look at all the headlines that I don't actually read Exit the app if the feed gets larger Jump out of bed, pop my phone off the charger I had a minute to win it, but now it feels like a second Too much information beckons, I reckon, as I was checking the time I was reflecting on mine, really it's fine Lately I only think about it when I'm waiting in line With the speed that we're living at are we more free? Do I have more time 'cuz I got 4G? Or we really just have less time for actual reflection Living life at the speed of a modern internet connection Cruising through life at a new speed Addicted to the sights and the sounds of the news feed Slave to the Web, can I stay this free? Everybody's got a new form of ADD They say that our attention spans will be just fine But we went from TV to YouTube, and YouTube to Vine Online, where everything just feels like it's faster But that's why the apprentice can never become a master And the truth is, that we don't really know what's next I never get calls, because it's so much faster to text There's a hunger for knowledge, and a need to feed But we don't listen to the lecture cuz' it's faster to read Nobody gets anything done until the page loads Uber back, I ain't never call a taxi from a payphone There's no time to pause, and no time for a break There's no time to mess up and there's no time to learn from the mistake There's no time to shut it down, no time to look alive No time to turn the phone off and no time to go outside There's no time between depositing a check and when the check's done No time between finishing a project and then the next one There's only time for seconds of circles that keep spinning Time for clicking bu*tons and watching the bars finish Time for wasting time on the internet when the day ends Time to oversleep and time to do it all again