Mindlessly

I just need a break, I need to get away and find myself some peace These times are passing by faster than I can comprehend, I need to breathe. I am scrolling through my newsfeed, that deceives me til I scream I am blind, I don't know my deepest need I say I haven't time, but I've the time to mess around And life goes by so fast and oh so mindlessly It was only yesterday that I was 18 and I was out to change the world Every campaign I would sign and I'd be on the picket line, as if I knew it all Suddenly I'm thirty and I've drifted by so unconsciously When I was younger I pondered every reason why But now I shrug my shoulder and I toe the party line What happened to the hunger to fight equality Life goes by so fast and oh so mindlessly I've met so many people here this week, who are dying, dying to be free Doctors going sick and therapists needing therapy The planet's spinning faster than we can ever take We push it to its limits until the climate breaks Wake me up, oh wake me, oh how we let it be That life goes by so fast, and oh so mindlessly