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Virtual Insanity was released on September 9, 1996 by Sony Music CG as a part of the album Travelling Without Moving (20th Anniversary Edition) [2016 Remaster]

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Jay Kay

Vocals

Derrick McKenzie

Derrick McKenzie

Drums

Sola Akingbola

Percussion

Stuart Zender

Bass Guitar

Toby Smith

Keyboards

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Toby Smith

Songwriter

Wallis Buchannan

Wallis Buchannan

Songwriter

Stuart Zender

Songwriter

Simon Katz

Songwriter

Derrick McKenzie

Derrick McKenzie

Songwriter

Jay Kay

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Tim Young

Mastering Engineer

Jay Kay

Producer

Al Stone

Mixing Engineer

Lyrics

[Intro]

Ooh, hey, hey, aww

What we're living in

Let me tell y'all

[Verse 1]

And it's a wonder men can eat at all

When things are big that should be small

Who can tell what magic spells we'll be doing for us?

And I'm giving all my love to this world

Only to be told

I can't see

I can't breathe

No more will we be

[PreChorus]

And nothing's gonna change the way we live

'Cause we can always take, but never give

And now that things are changing for the worse

See, whoa, it's a crazy world we're living in

And I just can't see that half of us immersed in sin

Is all we have to give these

[Chorus]

Futures made of virtual insanity, now

Always seem to be governed by this love we have

For useless twisting of our new technology

Oh, now there is no sound

For we all live underground

[Verse 2]

And I'm thinking, "What a mess we're in"

Hard to know where to begin

If I could slip the sickly ties that earthly man has made

And now every mother can choose the colour

Of her child

That's not nature's way

[PreChorus]

Well, that's what they said yesterday

There's nothing left to do, but pray

I think it's time I found a new religion

Whoa, it's so insane to synthesize another strain

There's something in these futures that we have to be told

[Chorus]

Futures made of virtual insanity, now

Always seem to be governed by this love we have

For useless twisting of our new technology

Oh, now there is no sound

For we all live underground, whoa

[PostChorus]

Now there is no sound

If we all live underground

And now it's virtual insanity

Forget your virtual reality

Oh, there's nothing so bad

As a manmade man

Oh, yeah, I know, yeah

I know I can't go on

[Bridge]

Of this virtual insanity we're living in

Has got to change, yeah

Things will never be the same

And I can't go on

While we're living in, oh, oh, virtual insanity

Oh, this world has got to change

'Cause I just, I just can't keep going on in this virtual

Virtual insanity that we're living in, that we're living in

Now virtual insanity is what it is

Yeah

[Chorus]

Futures made of virtual insanity, now

Always seem to be governed by this love we have

For useless twisting of our new technology

Oh, now there is no sound

For we all live underground

Oh, futures made of, now, virtual insanity

Now they always seem to be governed by a love for these

Useless twisting of our new technology

And now there is no sound

For we all live underground

Yes, we do

[PostChorus]

Oh, now this life that we live in

It's all going wrong, and

Out of the window, you know

There, there is nothing worse than a rambling man

There is nothing worse than a foolish man

[Outro]

Virtual insanity is what we're living in

Yeah, well, it's alright

Written by: Derrick McKenzie, Jason Kay, Simon Laurence Katz, Stuart Zender, Toby Smith, Wallis Lee Buchanan

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