Cyber Cost, Humanity's Loss lyrics

She plays with the men on a website

On a laptop for attention unfelt, real?

Near her spouse, living both inattentively

Reality failed, a virtual success now?

Afraid to go on, to be alone, to live

To be rid of self-wrought chains, to be free

Sullied now in cyber-fulfilling addiction

An emotional deluge creeps forth

In erratic currents as a result

What is the price to others unknown

Who stumble into this chaotic current

Whilst trying to survive its eddies

That ensnaring them in Pandoric past

Perchance this is their existance too?

No more than the drone of digits on a keyboard

A connection of circuits and circumstances

Representing their purpose of life

In an inaccountable world without face

Living in an electronic illusion

Where there are fleeting encounters

That can demand very little of us

Easily controlled, with little response

A shallow world easily closed

But a world so enticing to the lost

Where beauty seen and unseen are unsensed

Where faults are frequently hidden

The mild can roar, rant, and rave

The meek can be great, if only briefly

No one sees the tears they create

Nor the hurt that they uncaringly bestow

Humanity is then lost and numb

Even hardiest laughter is silenced

Sincerity unseen in earnest eyes

Reality becomes unlivablely wrong

Because the mind only sees faults in truth

Happiness is then an actual illusion

Escaping beyond an illuminated screen

Where the imperfect world that must be kept

That is ever present and ever requiring

Perhaps that is real life's quandary

That eventually will change those

In this byteland filled with illusions