[Verse 1: Dave]
Look
I grew up in a good but a changin' age
My wife and kids, Damon Wayans
When the youth club was everybody's favourite place
Where if you spoke to a girl, then it was face-to-face
Bruh, I seen the heart of the hood turn trendy
Kids lose interest, parks turn empty
Social media's got us all less friendly
Now can't you see the irony?
She's got game when she types to me
But nothin' in person, that ain't the type for me
Asking, "Can we go for dinner?", yet in the flesh
No conversation, no intellect
The future generation of the children of the internet
[Verse 2: Dave]
Look
It's all changin', I'm seein' it now
You can meet a hundred people without leaving your house
Puttin' pictures in a frame, it's a memory in the clouds
You know everybody keeps their memories in the cloud
We finally found a voice, and we ain't speaking as loud
People only wanna listen to the sheep and the crowd
And any other statement gets you cancelled by an activist
That's never helped the cause that they're tweeting about
Do you blame public figures and personalities
For giving the little kids a warped view of reality?
Or blame all of the apps that make a killing
On finding the sweet spot in your self-hate and vanity?
Could you argue that it's borderline dangerous
To take a picture of a girl's face and start changin' it?
With one quick filter, your nose looks thinner
Your eyes look fuller, your lips look bigger
Your software's better and your phone knows everything
If anything, it's getting George Orwell-ian (Yeah)
[Bridge: Dave]
Look
It's all connected, nobody's protected
From business collectives, your info's collected
[Outro: Es Devlin & Dave]
Children of the internet
Your info collected
As a species, we now have to redefine what it means to be connected
Children of the internet
A recent study showed that the average person earnestly swipes, taps, pinches their phone a million times a year
Your info collected
People feel naked, inadequate and utterly vulnerable without their phone
It's a primary conduit of personal, social and work life
Children of the internet
There are more active cell phones on the planet than people
The mobile phone is both a connection and disconnection device
It is typically placed between the human and its surroundings
Tuning the surroundings out