Zen & The Art Of Dating

Album: Ensoulment (2024)
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  • Welcome to the world of singledom
    Microwave dinners made for one
    Lies in her bed, stares into space
    Wistfully thinks of their last embrace
    But there's plenty more fish in that ocean
    Someone with genuine emotion

    The bottle is empty, it's getting late
    Types in the virtues of her perfect mate
    Committed, kind, clean body and mind
    Solvent, truthful, refined
    Adds an alias for anonymity
    A postcode for proximity

    Concealing her age, revealing her doubt
    That staying in is the new going out
    But she's dreaming of whiskery lips
    Kissing their way from ankles to hips
    Breasts are yearning, loins are burning
    Flirting with the point of no returning

    Swipe to the left, swipe to the right
    She needs somebody tonight
    Oh yeah? Oh yeah
    The passionate cries of shared desires
    She needs somebody tonight
    Oh yeah? Oh yeah

    Sitting at the bar, mindlessly drinking
    Eating crisps and thinking
    It's making him anxious, bruising his heart
    She seems happier now they're apart
    Though he was the one who fled their cage
    He's now the question mark on the empty page
    But life is short, it's growing dark

    Is tonight the night he'll make a fresh start?
    Is travel more satisfying than destination?
    The chase more exciting than consummation?
    Wrestling with thoughts he dare not speak

    He feels so shallow it's almost deep
    Then three pints down, he's feeling fine
    He's nowhere, everywhere, at the same time
    Bullied by his bodily urges
    Checks his phone and recent searches
    The fluid starts to rise
    That familiar throb deep inside

    Swipe to the left, swipe to the right
    He needs somebody tonight
    Oh yeah? Oh yeah
    The passionate cries of shared desires
    He needs somebody tonight
    Oh yeah? Oh yeah

    A vast mosaic of electric eyes
    Watches the slaves of desires
    The virtual lives, lonely struggling
    Endless lies, loveless coupling
    The dance of strangers who'll never meet

    Hearts worn thin by restless feet
    The faster they chase, the further it runs
    The deeper it cuts, the quicker it numbs
    Though it's a cliche, maybe it's true?
    That only when you stop searching for love
    Will love come searching for you

    Swipe to the left, swipe to the right
    We need somebody tonight
    Oh yeah? Oh yeah
    The passionate cries of shared desires
    We need somebody tonight
    Oh yeah? Oh yeah
    Oh yeah? Oh yeah
    Oh yeah? Oh yeah Writer/s: Matt Johnson
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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