Infinite Loop from Monitors by Jacob Metcalf

Are we in an infinite loop
Repeating decisions our parents made too?
I'll show you

Attraction, approach, and advance
Small talk, chit chat, budding romance
Whispering, insisting secrets from friends
At first you seem to align in a telephoto lens

Now there’s distance: strife and feuds
It goes cold so quick … all sides lose
Sometimes we give in, give up, let go, understandably
Sometimes we break away, split and repeat

Some might say our circuits– they are crossed too
Oh is human life on earth doomed?
I’ll show you

Do we pass off debts to our children and
Should sons pay for all their father’s spending?
Do we self-destruct [or] self-medicate?
Pull the blinds and hide from the pain?

Sometimes we give in, give up, let go– understandably
Sometimes we break away, split and repeat
Sometimes we give in, give up, let go– decently
Sometimes we break away, split and repeat
Or do we?

• Folk
• acoustic
• easy listening
• folk baroque
• modern western
• singer-songwriter
• Dallas