IRL

[Verse 1] Waking up’s the hardest part of the deal From one dream into another, reinventing the wheel I put my name on just like everybody else One letter at a time, and put my skin up on the shelf [Chorus 1] In real life I’m not the man in the mirror In real life I’m just the man on the screen In real life We’re all such delicate creatures In real life We want to touch, we want to see what it means [Verse 2] I don’t know what I’m holding Is rhis weapons grade? A prototype? Something to keep me safe at night? I don’t know if I’m holding you Are you just a shade, a trick of the light Or something with width and breadth and height? [Chorus 2] In real life We’ve got some flat plastic objects In real life We put their glow in our minds In real life We’re disconnected by cables In real life We long to look into another pair of eyes [Refrain] The flesh and bone That feels like home Wood and water and stone [Bridge] There’s no God in these machines Only ghosts and subroutines and fake memories So let’s do what we came here to do Perpetuate humanity like we’re supposed to In real life, in real life In real life we could have real lives In real life, in real life In real life we could have real lives [Refrain] The flesh and bone That feels like home Wood and water and stone