Children of the Internet (feat. Dave & Es Devlin) [Ezra Collective Remix]

Look, I grew up in a good but a changing age

'My Wife and Kids', Damon Wayans

When a Youth Club was everybody's favorite place

Where if you spoke to a girl then it was face to face

Bro, I've 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 nothing in person, that ain't the type for me

Asking, "Can we go for dinner?"

Yet in the flesh, no conversation or intellect

The future generation are the children of the internet

Look, it's all changing, I'm seeing it now

You can meet a hundred people without leaving your house

Putting pictures into frames and memory in the clouds

You know everybody keeps their memories in a cloud

We finally found a voice and we ain't speaking as loud

People only want to listen to the sheep in a 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 little kids a warped view of reality?

Or blame all of the apps that make a killing in 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 changing it?

In one quick filter, your nose looks thinner, your eyes look fuller, your lips look bigger

Your software's bettering, your phone knows everything, if anything it's getting George Orwellian

Look, it's all connected

Nobody's protected from business collectives

Your info's collected

Children of the internet

Children of the internet

Your info collected

As 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 more active cellphones 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