Lara Newman - Generation Rectangle // Darkwave, Post Punk

👁️ My new channel:    / @larasvault-2   🕯️ Explore projects & albums: https://shadowloft.bandcamp.com 💿 Get the cover albums (Vol. 1 & 2): https://ko-fi.com/laranewman 🍬 Or if you just want to leave a treat: https://bit.ly/4eY84yo 🎬 Visuals & Sound: Concept, editing & video production by Real Illusions. Music: instrumentation via Suno, with custom arrangement and production. Vocals performed by Lara Newman. 🎧 HEADPHONES RECOMMENDED 📜 Lyrics: You wake before the morning With blue light on your face A thousand people talking From a thousand different places Your mother calls you twice But you don't hear her through the glass A message from a stranger And a moment that won't last You learn to hate your features By comparing them online Someone's living your dream life Inside your tired, unmade mind Every little vibration Pulls another thread Till the world outside you Is a place inside your head Generation Rectangle Eyes beneath the light Trading all the real things For a better-looking life Generation Rectangle Tell me what you see A million perfect strangers And nobody looking at me Swipe away the silence Scroll away the pain Build a little heaven In a window full of rain When the screen goes black Who's the face you see? Staring from the other side Of your own reality She's fourteen in the bathroom Taking forty pictures straight Every smile is being measured Every second comes too late She deletes the ones that look like her Keeps the ones that look like someone else Then she lies awake till morning Feeling ugly by herself At school they speak in numbers Hearts and views and who got seen Every joke becomes a weapon Every friendship gets a screen Every little notification Says that you belong Till the room goes quiet And the feeling comes back strong Generation Rectangle Eyes beneath the light Trading all the real things For a better-looking life Generation Rectangle Tell me what you see A million perfect strangers And nobody looking at me Swipe away the silence Scroll away the pain Build a little heaven In a window full of rain At the table, four are eating But no one's really there One is watching strangers dancing One is fixing up her hair A father checks his messages As his daughter tells a story He says, "That's nice, sweetheart" While she watches him ignore her She stops halfway through the sentence He doesn't notice when She decides that he is busy And won't tell him things again There's a man who knows the headlines Knows strangers' private lives But the woman sleeping next to him Has stopped asking if he's fine They photograph the sunset They record the perfect night But nobody remembers What it felt like to be alive It isn't just the children They were handed what we made Every bright and clever doorway Has a price that isn't paid Keep them watching Keep them wanting Keep them frightened of the day That they might miss something important If they ever look away Make them feel a little poorer Sell them mirrors for the wall Call it connection Call it choice While they lose their own voice What happened to the boredom That could open up a door? To the long, unplanned afternoons When we needed nothing more? To the walk without a purpose To a thought that could be free To a moment that belonged to us Without an audience to see? You don't have to hate the machine You don't have to turn away But a life is more than proof That you were here today Generation Rectangle Eyes beneath the light Trading all the real things For a better-looking life Generation Rectangle Tell me what you see A million perfect strangers And nobody looking at me Put away the silence Let the silence stay Let the world be imperfect Let it happen anyway Generation Rectangle Let the screen go black There's a world beyond the window And it's waiting for you back When the screen goes black When the room goes still When there's nothing left to look at Nothing left to thrill No numbers No hearts No audience to please Just you And the dark And the sound of being free Generation Rectangle Look up. © Lara Newman – All rights reserved. This music, visual artwork, and character concept are original creations and are protected by applicable copyright law. Unauthorized reproduction, redistribution, or re-uploading of this content is prohibited. If you are a creator and wish to use this music in a video, project, or collaboration, please contact me for licensing and permission. #LaraNewman #darkwave #postpunk #goth #synthwave #independentartist #EtherealWave #DoomerMusic #Coldwave #DarkSynth #post-punk