I see why you don’t go out
It’s the internet isn’t it the sick voyeurism
It’s enough to bring anyone down
Clutching desperately at the BBC broadcasters
For some clarity a rarity
But when you meet these people at parties
They’re saying
You will have to get yourself a laptop
Start up a goddamn blog
Don’t complain this is modern life
We’re all wrong what do you mean
There’s no one here to set us right
You will have to get yourself a laptop
Start up a goddamn blog
Don’t complain this is modern life
Talk’s cheap throw it up then delete
I smashed up my desktop
It had the reins and was running me around like a pony
Wasn’t sure where my friends were
There was an awful preoccupation with stupid little videos
We’re young we’re creative things
just updating our statuses
Cos the madmen tell us this is really gonna sell us
They say
You will have to get yourself a laptop
In this modern life
A neat commercial enterprise
A self promoting paradise
Be sure to message goodbye
Can’t you see why
Diversion from the burden and the grind
And so we kill time
Truth too hard to find
Make it up then never mind
In this godless modern life
You will have to get yourself a laptop
In this modern life
You trip and fall they replay it online
In this modern life
Truth too hard to find
Make it up then never mind