What about longer lives, at the expense of longer hours?
What about feeling better, but with a smaller range of emotions?
What about anxiety as just another lifestyle accessory?
And what about killing the machine just to keep the wheels turning?
Whats about inadequacy and apathy as different names for the same thing?

It is.
Being smaller than the task at hand.
Too much to care for, so we don't care at all.

Then there are passive-agressive brutes, yeah I know all about you
And there's world politics with honorable intentions, with nothing but dead children at its feet
What about Brazilian farmers, Chechnyan mothers, American Indians, Saudi lesbians and first-world dreamers?

Yeah we're all left wanting, it leaves us.

Feeling smaller than the task at hand.
Too much to care for, so we don't care at all.

At least that's how it feels. This is who we are, less than we aspired to.
And in our reflection, so have we shaped the world?
So have we shaped everything?

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