Equinox Avenue - Digital Skin Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Screen light burning through my eyes at midnight
Teaching music through a lagging feed
Students frozen like digital ghosts, alright
This connection ain't what it seems to be
Your face pixelated, can't feel your soul
These virtual rooms getting mighty cold

[Chorus]
Need that skin on skin, baby, this ain't living
Touch-starved in a world of ones and zeros
My heart's been giving and giving
But these screens just leave me feeling like a shadow
(Like a shadow, mmm)

[Verse 2]
Daddy's memory slipping through the WiFi
Can't hold his hand through fiber optic lies
His mind's scattered like these broken beats
While I'm performing for likes and retweets
Funk ain't the same through these laptop speakers
Soul getting weaker and weaker

[Bridge]
Remember when we used to groove?
Bodies moving, nothing to prove
Now we're just profiles to scroll through
Curated pain, but it ain't true

[Chorus]
Need that skin on skin, baby, this ain't living
Touch-starved in a world of ones and zeros
My heart's been giving and giving
But these screens just leave me feeling like a shadow
(Like a shadow, damn)

[Verse 3]
Social media got me feeling hollow
Playing pretend with filters and follows
Missing that bass that shakes the floor
Missing that sweat, can't take no more
Daddy don't remember my face no more
These video calls just hit me at my core

[Outro]
Let me feel something real again
Let me heal something real again
These virtual hugs ain't doing shit for my pain
Need that funk, that touch, that love in my veins
(In my veins, baby)
Screen light fading, but I'm still waiting
For something real, something real
(Something real, oh)