Narcissus - Tonedeff

Look at me.

Look at you

Looking at me.

Looking at you

Looking at me looking at me

Looking at you looking at you

Life’s a house of mirrors — I’m hooked to the view

I wipe em down to clear em — I’m pushing up through

A thousand idle copies of me smushed in a room

Bluer than Jonathan Osterman’s and I’m just as aloof

A crowd of identical twins I mistook as a crew

I found that I can’t count on myself, need onlooker approval

Let’s hammer it home, shatter my sense of self

A fragmented soul, I’m the emptiest shell

No courtesy from love — so I measure this wealth

In the currency of lust — and I’m spending it well

I’m your heaven or hell.

Echoed sentiments swell

As you beg me to mention your name, heckle and yell

Girls in their dresses worshiping mirrors

Live for the spotlight won’t you come near us

Boys serve as minions, ready to serve as the

Cameras give life to the death on the surface

It’s all about me

Come with us

Fuck a thousand words I could spend it on one picture

Plunge to drown your thirst and pretend I’m a mug — sip up!

Drunken off the curves, till you’re bent into submission

Listen!

Your thumbprint is a drug to our numbed senses/

In love with our reflection — it’s us!

It’s an obsession —

We’re stuck — in the sum of our ourselves

Publish the self as something to sell, an addiction to wishing that we were

somebody else

Now, if you follow along, well then you can follow me back

If you’ve got me all in your paws, you’re within the palm of my hand/

If you got a comment, then all of it better be positive —

Act up and you will be barred — I am God and this pixel facade is my chapel

The rapture within an app, I read your responses and laugh

Please throw your hearts in the basket, scream to all that you tapped it then

pass it along

Authors of captions craft me a psalm — like I am an icon

Refreshing!

I’m a symbol of my status