This song is pretty straightforward. It’s about how we see a manufactured image from the rich and famous, carefully controlled to make them appear to lead flawless lives. We then turn around and do the same thing on a smaller scale on social media. The end result is a certain selection bias that makes it seem that everyone around us is living glamorous, fun, meaningful, brag-worthy lives. Which is not true — a lot of the time we’re hating our jobs or struggling to help our kids or pooping. But you wouldn’t know any of that mundane stuff by looking at the average person’s social media feed.

This was recorded with all electric instruments (except the drums, arranged as always) via the BOSS amp simulator. The vocals were a simple SM-57 through the Zoom recorder.

Lyrics

Perfect people looking but unseeing
They’re living lives of gold
We wish so hard but we can’t be them
So pretty, polished, and bold
Adulation and inspiration
Luxury and applause
We look inward, and feel inferior
And focus on our flaws

We don’t have to see that way
Take off the rose-colored glasses
Comparison is the thief of joy
And it breeds between the masses

There’s so many unbroken humans, there’s so many unbroken humans
There’s so many unbroken humans to compare yourself against
There’s so many unbroken humans and they inspire such strange delusions
And make more unbroken humans for us to emulate and resent

Even when we look to social media
The outcome’s the same
Friends only share their perfect moments
We feel lesser and ashamed
Every perfect instagram selfie
HIdes a mess out of sight
We all contribute to this escalation
Until nothing good feels right

Why do we perpetuate the cycles
And immiserate our days?
Can’t we see that we’re all flawed
In our own important ways?

There’s so many unbroken humans…

Let’s reject the filters and falsehoods
And share who we really are
Stop it with the expectations
See the hurt, the flaws, and the scars

There’s so many unbroken humans…