The User - Ben Levin and Jessica Kion

Lyrics:
We are sedimental
Pieces not essential
Eroding into +1's and likes

We are YouTube teachers
We are Reddit preachers
We're a box of pixels and lights

Measure life in numbers
Slopes are curving upward
Happiness a straight skyward line

It points me in directions that I just shouldn't mention
Cause there's no fucking end in sight

I'm soft I'm warm I'm full of blood
It's blue and red
I'm running just like everyone
Straight to my death
And it's nice to know there's not much more to life than that
I'm soft I'm warm I'm full of love
Let's go to bed
Without knowing why or how or when
Without knowing why or how or when

I've got dirty laundry
I've got stale clothes on me
I look like a total mess
I'm an eccentric winner
Or a rat straight out the shitter
It depends on my commercial success

And if I live for pleasure
Or if I hold out forever
Does it make any difference?

When music among mortals
Is a timeless portal
One fraction of an atom thick

I'm soft I'm warm I'm full of blood
It's blue and red
I'm running just like everyone
Straight to my death
And it's nice to know there's not much more to life than that
I'm soft I'm warm I'm full of love
Let's go to bed
Without knowing why or how or when
Without knowing why or how or when

The code is not the killer
The hardware's no blood spiller
It's the user that rings his own neck.

[HoseMead]

Me: Damn, this is a really touching song.
Ben: *starts singing about laundry*
Me: *starts crying*

[wintermatter]

This is surrealistically real, down-to-earth, and otherdimensional

[Yesh]

When he said “I got dirty laundry I got still on me” I felt that

[zsteinkamp]

That look at "commercial success" :D Thanks you two for sharing.

[mykhedelic]

Some of my favorite Bent Knee are when Kion pipes in with Swain.

[ByteMe]

This brought me back into the real world <3

[GabrielPerboni]

I wish everyone a really cool life while it lasts

[nickpovy]

i've been enjoying these acoustic versions more than the normal album versions

[islandtelevisionch]

Oh my! How are these people not more well known? You are my YouTube Teachers! My Reddit Preachers!

[paja]

There really is something extremely profound about these texts. So silly and childlike, yet so very powerful and heartwarming. Thanks for bewitching me from start to end.

[kayx]

The lyrics hit me right in the fourth dimension.

[featherflight]

I keep coming back to this, something about it is so haunting in a very sad and beautiful and comforting way. Thank you for this

[enkita]

favorite song off the album, somehow similar to those beautiful mars volta slow and climactic ballads but also really original

[arthurfredericks]

This is my first exposure to this song. It's really beautiful.

[eliojaillet]

I'm used to watch stuff on youtube for a long time. I think this must be the first time that I post something : this stroke me deep in the guts! Thank you so much! Keep jamming people!

[FnnyF]

This is beautiful Ben. I am finding I really connect with your art

[danielshook]

That coda may not be the killer, but that was a killer coda, really nice finale.

[ssrix]

This was my top listened to song on spotify

[benkohler]

Man, a whole essay could be written on this song. For now, however, I'll just say that's a fookin fantastic piece. Thanks, other Ben.

[dumpsterDeity]

My favorite song on the album! Thank you for this live version, it's beautiful