This track is all about what it feels like to be robotic. Sometimes, we get so caught up in monotony, and repetition that it feels like we're distancing ourselves from what makes us human. In a digital world, this track has us yearning for humanity, and wanting to slow down how much technology is taking over our lives.
lyrics
I am human.
I am not a robot.
I am not AI.
Where people are going out
I'm staying-in
Where my face is in focus mode
They display-a-grin
Long lists, check marks
Wishing I could trade-'em-in
For dinner and a movie, man
But I guess that this...
Is just the way-it-is.
It's isolating
Being the efficient one
Afraid to delve into emotions
For fear I wouldn't get-it-done
But, I wake up feeling that hurt for home
However, home
Is something I just don't for certain...know.
I keep wondering
If on the search-for-home
That the show is over
Lights out
Curtains-closed.
How do I make home where the heart is?
Where the heart is
Satiated
Not like a bone when I'm starvin'...
I'm tired of looking
Tired of finding
I just want my purpose
To come and find-me.
I'm tired of being afraid
I'm tired of rules
I'm tired of thinking I need to be fixed
But I can't find the tools
Tired of looking at my inner workings
Like they need to be re-wired
And re-wired again
All this re-wiring is making
Me-tired...
I'm tired
I'm tired of thinking that it's always me
All the time
And that all those guns pointed at me
In this World World Me
They just need to cease-fire.
I'm tired of this programming
Tired of falling-in-line
I want to be falling in love
Like RIGHT NOW...
No stalling-this-time.
Tired of order, tired of the details
Tired of in-person being replaced
By e-mails
I'm Tired of messages, tired of digital
I think here and now it's pivotal
To say something more
Than just subliminal...
And that is...
I am human.
I am not a robot.
I am not AI.
I'm tired of following the path
Going only in a straight line
See, I want to veer off of it
And at the same time
Jump, man
Just JUMP!
Were you about to say that?
Great minds...
Think-alike
You know what I want most?
All I want is a human...
State of mind.
credits
from #flowtherapy EP Vol. 1,
released August 20, 2019
Written and Performed by Devin James
Recorded, Edited and Mixed by Devin James
Sound Design by Devin James
Mastered by Dana White
Poet Douglas Kearney and composer/producer/drummer Val Jeanty link up for a a compelling LP that feels like the written word come to life. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 30, 2021
