Override!

So absorbed in social scores

I owe you an apology, for everything that you endured

Selfishly, I couldn’t see

I was no spanner in the works - merely a cog in the machine

When data is obsolescent

Override!

Your youth is not you, just a beta test with sketchy views

But still, it whirrs away at night.

Are you out there? Are you alright?

Now I see, no matter if we were allies or at odds

To laugh along and throw those words around was wrong

Override!

Looking back with open eyes

I was everything I now despise

Wish someone I looked up to had taken me aside to set me straight and say "What's wrong with being that way?"

So absorbed in social scores

I owe you an apology, for everything that you endured

Selfishly, I couldn’t see

I was no spanner in the works, merely a cog in the machine

Hiding away in denial

What sort of life is that for a child?

Looking back with open eyes

I was everything I now despise

Even in a different time

To let that shit slide

Was moronic, out of line

And if it didn’t mean that much to you

I still contributed to enforcing a taboo

Preprogrammed pretentious pride

Tonight we have to override!

Downloaded virus, damaged drives

Friends don’t shut your eyes

We have to override!

Looking back with rapid eyes

I was somebody that I don’t recognise

Wish someone I looked up to had taken me aside

To set me straight and say "What's wrong with being gay?”

Preprogrammed pretentious pride

We have to override!

Downloaded virus, damaged drives

Friends don’t shut your eyes

We have to override!