Virtual Insanity

Album: Travelling Without Moving (1997)
Charted: 3 39
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  • Ooh, hey hey, oh
    What we're living in
    Let me tell ya

    And it's a wonder man 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
    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

    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

    And I'm thinking what a mess we're in
    Hard to know where to begin
    If I could slip the sickly ties of earth that man has made
    And now every mother can choose the color
    Of her child
    That's not nature's way
    Well that's what they said yesterday
    There's nothing left to do but pray
    I think it's time to find a new religion
    Whoa, it's so insane
    To synthesize another strain
    There's something in these futures that we have to be told

    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

    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 meddlin' man
    Oh yeah
    I know, yeah
    (Ooh) take it to the bridge

    Ooh
    I know what can go on

    Ooh, of virtual insanity we're living in
    Has got to change, yeah
    Things will never be the same
    And I can't go on
    What 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, ooh

    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

    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
    Yes we do, oh

    (Living in) now this life that we're living
    (Virtual insanity) it's all so wrong and
    (Living in) out the window, you know
    (Virtual insanity) that there is nothing worse than

    (Living in) a meddlin' man
    (Virtual insanity) there is nothing worse than
    (Living in) a foolish mind
    (Virtual insanity) hey

    Virtual insanity is what we're living in
    Yeah, the world is all I have Writer/s: Derrick McKenzie, Jason Kay, Simon Katz, Stuart Zender, Toby Smith, Wallis Buchanan
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Fartha Mucker from London It’s more than a song it’s a piece of virtue which is never going to vanish
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