Fluorescent Light

They sold it on a cross

They sold it on a curve

And now it feels so cheap

Not deeper

They sold is as a little light bulb

They sold it as a sticker

And when that feels cheaper

Well, it doesn't feel much deeper

There was an ancient light

There was an ancient song

Now something isn't right

Now we live in fluorescent light

They sold it as a muffin

They sold it on TV

They sold it as a tabloid

Just to try to get the best of me

They caught us in the bleakness

They caught us on our screens

Brilliant minds go to college

Just to study marketing

There was an ancient light

There was an ancient song

Now something isn't right

Now we live in fluorescent lighting

Most of all our lives

Under the same lines

In schools and prisons and dying

Yeah, it's all in fluorescent light

They sold it as an olive

They sold it as a bomb

They sold it as self-protection

While the innocent children run

Grown men want to profit

With their fingers on their trigger

But when life feels cheaper

Then the dead have to dig deeper

There was an ancient light

There was an ancient song

Now something isn't right

It's the time of fluorescent light

Hey, how'd it get so bright?

I turn off my phone