the new drug

All hail the new drug! 
It's going to make an artist out of you!
All hail the new drug! 
You're going to feel brand new! 
All hail the new drug! 
You'll finally be able to paint generic 
remakes of Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo! 
You'll feel alive ‘cause you're just so dead inside
Aren't you?! 
Your aches and pains and frustrations 
Come from a very deep place in your traumatised 
Nonexistent existentialist soul. 
You're so liberal, political, inspirational, nihilist and existential.
A product of filtered words and ideas.
Filtered images and slow paced films.
Non filtered music.
And the same old paintings. 
You're a star. You're a whore. You're a saint. You're a pig.
You are everything. But still nothing.
So relatable.
So real.
A carbon copy of a jaded idea. 
All hail the new drug! 
Maybe this one will really kill you! 
But we all hail the drug, 
The old, the banned and the new. 

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