🎵　Coward

Half-price bento from the supermarket, calories counted. I saved every penny, but the future remains blank. Crowded trains are a waste of money, and empathy is a source of risk. Repeatedly following the same old routine, doing the same old work. Rationally choosing an empty studio apartment. A life without waste somehow feels oppressive. Every time I come up with the optimal solution, the city seems more distorted. Everyone gets smarter, and the world gets stupider. Coward. Before we get hurt, we lock ourselves away. Drowning in a sea of ​​Wi-Fi, scrolling through the remnants of our dreams. Holidays where we stay indoors are the best value. Embracing jokes that aren't funny, the sun sets again today. Through the screen of a dating app, I reject people based solely on their specs. Because the cost of "meeting" is too high, love ends up being an illusion. Even if you refrain from buying coffee from a vending machine, your savings are nothing more than a number. Even if you die the wealthiest person in the world, what's the point? Give up the luxury of "normal" from the start. A life without any trouble feels quietly suffocating. You're supposed to be living efficiently, but you're taking the longest detour of your life. Cowards turn their backs on others before they love them. Your face, illuminated by the blue light, looks like a ghost. A holiday without spending money is a hollow victory of cleverness. Even though there's no longer a self to protect. Forget the heat of clashing with others. A pure heart only grows colder. Always choosing the right answer, unable to even make mistakes. Ah, what a restricted freedom. We cowards keep walking, avoiding the mud. But there's nothing under my shoes. I just work and go home. This silence that I've been protecting for so long. Do I really realize that this is the most irrational thing we can do? Tomorrow will be another rational, lonely morning. The love I've been protecting makes me feel lighter. I feel like it will disappear someday. ...and it makes me even more of a coward.