Love Story
Mark Starling
Did you read the morning column? Did you catch the latest feed?
They say I'm aging in dog years, a victim of the speed
Whispers in the green room, picking at my face
Saying I'm an apparition running in a digital race
Sources say my pixels and my battery are low
Just an empty plastic body putting on a show
They swear I'm looking for an anchor, something to stop the time
A legendary fiction, a beautiful crime
They say I'm terrified to quietly expire
Throwing my youth in the digital fire
And the rumor is I need a love story, cinematic and loud
A biblical romance to silence the crowd
They write I want the burning city, the tragic decree
A million-dollar budget just to prove you love me
Yeah, the headline is a love story to cover the gray
Before the machinery eats me away
A friend of a friend said I'm losing my touch
Looking for a savior 'cause I'm bleeding too much
Got an old man's shadow in a twenty-something frame
Choking on the silicone, losing the game
The tabloids say I'm moving faster than the light
Dying in the daytime, resurrected at night
They swear I'm looking for an anchor, something to stop the time
A legendary fiction, a beautiful crime
They say I'm terrified to quietly expire
Throwing my youth in the digital fire
And the rumor is I need a love story, cinematic and loud
A biblical romance to silence the crowd
They write I want the burning city, the tragic decree
A million-dollar budget just to prove you love me
Yeah, the headline is a love story to cover the gray
Before the machinery eats me away
He wants the climax, he wants the tears
He needs a scandal to validate the years
He wants the orchestra, he wants the flood
Written in neon and signed in his blood
He needs a masterpiece, he needs a myth
Just give him a ghost he can co-exist with
And the rumor is I need a love story, cinematic and loud
A biblical romance to silence the crowd
They write I want the burning city, the tragic decree
A million-dollar budget just to prove you love me
Yeah, the headline is a love story to cover the gray
Before the machinery eats me away
The rumor is a love story before I go cold
They're writing the ending before I get old