Jon Wiltshire - Childhood Cassette Lyrics

Netflix
And box sets
And teabags
And the homeless
In the end
We'll forget

It's like almonds
In my cereal
It's like worshipping
The material
In the end
I can't pretend

We are criminals
In our own heads
We are grandfathers
In our own beds
We just sit around
And talk
And we tick
And we tock

Click begin, type your password
That's how we make love
Sliding down kaleidoscopes
Is now defunct
Cut your hair
And buy new clothes!
Spend your money!
Watch the news
And fall asleep
And dream...

And in your dreams
Your tears are like a child's
Your childhood fears
Will play like a cassette

Now it's the morning
And you look at me
I look at emails
Look at pixels
Look at anything
Just to still my heart
In this city
That rewards
Just the worst
Things
It creeps us out
And into coins
It turns us in

So you want beauty
But you want WiFi
Connectivity
You want sunshine
In the end
What's the value of something?

So weave your cotton thread
Turn on an engine
Bask in starlight
Breathe in oxygen
Spray your farmyard
With pesticide
Build a spaceship
And step inside
You want the universe

Can you feel the Earth
Spin?