Jaxon Vibe - Jet Lag Lectures Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Back in my old room, jet-lagged and jaded
Dad's voice on cassettes, theories outdated
Watching war through screens while I sip my coffee
Safe in ivory towers, feeling kinda cocky
PhD discussions 'bout the world's collapse
While real bodies drop, man, that shit's so crass
Time zones got me f*cked up, can't sleep at night
Thinking 'bout the bullshit that I tried to write

[Chorus]
Privileged perspective, yeah, I know it's true
Watching from a distance, what the f*ck we do?
Academic bubble, theories in my head
While the world's on fire and people wind up dead
(What we gonna do?)

[Verse 2]
Father's old lectures crackling through the tape
'bout institutional failure and escape
Meanwhile I'm here tweeting 'bout the latest news
Like my takes matter, man, I'm so confused
Delayed flights and delayed guilt hitting me now
Watching conflicts through a lens, I don't know how
To reconcile these thoughts that keep me woke
While others live this shit, I'm just a joke

[Bridge]
Time zones shifting, mind's drifting
Between lecture halls and missile calls
Performative empathy, that's all we got
Playing scholar while the world gets shot

[Verse 3]
Trump's getting booked while I write my thesis
Ukraine's burning, but I speak in pieces
Of theory and thoughts and f*cking frameworks
While real people deal with real dark
Got frequent flyer miles to prove my worth
Moving between worlds like I know their hurt
But all I got is secondhand pain
Academic distance keeping me sane

[Outro]
Jet lag's got nothing on this moral drift
Between what I study and what I live
Papers can't capture what's really real
When you're too far removed to actually feel