Forgot How to Forget

They told me to push it To the back of my head "Let it go!" "You're young!" "Forget!" "Don't dread!" "Not yet!" But I'm afraid 'Cause I think I forgot How to forget So I keep drinking To stop me from sinking To stop me from drinking To stop me from feeling and bleeding and crying 'Cause I try to love And love is trying And I've been trying But I can't let go of all the pain in the world Like how suicide rates and social inequality rates are both on a scary incline While we're inclined To do Absolutely nothing Or how we let them torture animals To give us cheaper meat Just so we can throw more out Or how they torture children To give us over-priced iPhones and cheaper clothes Just so we can throw more out How do I forget? I think I forgot So f*ck you If you go to a café with your girlfriends and hashtag it "Long time, no see" F*ck, you're still not seeing And f*ck you If your music taste is just "whatever's on the radio right now" It's all fucking marketing And f*ck you For letting yourself be a number For letting them measure you and track you And f*ck you If you think I'm just being pretentious and difficult And f*ck me For being pretentious and difficult And f*ck me For all of the above I'm sorry for being so angry Don't think this doesn't hurt me too Don't think I'm not lying awake Wanting to pound my fists through the walls Don't think I don't wish I could just drink 'till I drowned in myself Don't think I don't hate myself for being so angry I just don't remember how not to be Why is everyone else not angry all the time? Did you peek behind the curtain of this puppet show And decide that you were content? That this was good enough? Or did you choose to forget? I'm getting exhausted Don't ask me what caused it There's a line and they crossed it Take a look and it's thwarted The future is deceitful Ignorance is blissful The world is awful And I'm forgetful But let's remain hopeful Let's remember that change never came from "good enough" Let's remember that happiness never came from more stuff Let's get angry Let's yell louder Let's sing to the skies Let's bang every fucking drum Let's strum every single chord they're afraid to hear Let's get angry and let change come And when we're dead and gone We can rest knowing That we weren't just here Let us be the ones who will not be measured We didn't just accept what they called fact We decided to act To react Let us be the ones who peeked behind the curtain and decided That this is not okay Let's get angry (Let's get angry) Let's get so fucking angry (Let's get so fucking angry) Let's get angry (Angry, angry, angry) Let's get so fucking angry (Let's get so fucking angry) (Fucking angry) Or I guess you can just forget But I'm happy that I forgot how