Fear of a Blank Planet

About Fear of a Blank Planet

"Fear of a Blank Planet" is a Porcupine Tree song. It appears as the first track on the album of the same name. A promo single of the song was released in Europe and the United States, by respective record labels. Both promos contain an edited version of "Fear of a Blank Planet" with the swearing removed. The lyrics deal with two common neurobehavioural developmental disorders for teenagers in the 21st Century: bipolar disorder and attention deficit disorder.

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2013

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Sunlight coming through the haze 
No gaps in the blind 
To let it inside
The bed is unmade
Some music still plays
TV, yeah it's always on
A flicker on the screen
A movie actress screams 
I'm basking in the shit flowing out of it

I'm stoned in the mall again 
Terminally bored
Shuffling round the stores
And shoplifting is getting so last year's thing
Xbox is a god to me 
A finger on the switch 
My mother is a bitch
My father gave up ever trying to talk to me

Don't try engaging me 
The vaguest of shrugs 
The prescription drugs 
You'll never find
a person inside
My face is mogadon
Curiosity
has given up on me
I'm tuning out desires
The pills are on the rise

How can I be sure I'm here? 
The pills that I've been taking confuse me
I need to know that someone sees that
There's nothing left, I simply am not here

I'm through with pornography 
The acting is lame 
The action is tame 
Explicitly dull 
Arousal annulled
Your mouth should be boarded up 
Talking all day 
With nothing to say 
Your shallow proclamations 
All misinformation

My friend says he wants to die 
He's in a band 
They sound like Pearl Jam
The clothes are all black
The music is crap
In school I don't concentrate 
And sex is kinda fun,
but just another one 
of all the empty ways 
of using up a day

How can I be sure I'm here? 
The pills that I've been taking confuse me
I need to know that someone sees that
There's nothing left, I simply am not here

Bipolar disorder
Can't deal with the boredom
Bipolar disorder
Can't deal with the boredom

You don't try to be liked
You don't mind
You feel no sun
You steal a gun
To kill time
You're somewhere, you're nowhere
You don't care
You catch the breeze
You still the leaves
So now where?

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Porcupine Tree

Porcupine Tree is a rock band formed by Steven Wilson in 1987 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England. Their music is associated with both psychedelic rock and progressive rock, yet having been influenced by trance, krautrock and ambient due to Steven Wilson and Richard Barbieri's penchant for the Kosmische Musik scene of the early 1970s, led by bands such as Tangerine Dream, Neu! and Can. Since the early 2000s (decade), their music has been leaning towards progressive metal and alternative rock. more »

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