Hyber: “Not Depressed Enough To Get Paid For It”

This song title goes fucking hard. Our highlighted track is “Not Depressed Enough To Get Paid For It” from Hyber. What’s the “it”? We’ve got lyrics posted at the Bandcamp to help us navigate. Scanning, scanning, scanning. OK, I’m stumped. See what you make of it.

In a sea of beings

They’ve all got their meaning

I’m in the brink of it all and

I can’t feel anything

I wish my head would fall off

Did I start my life out

All wrong?

I think there must be more to this

I think there must be more to this

Than sitting around

And dying

Feeling lost and alone

Seeing all kinds of ads on my phone

Signed up for a clinical trial and

I guess I’m not qualified

“Depressed but not enough”

Did I start my life out

All wrong?

I think there must be more to this

I think there must be more to this

Than sitting around

And dying

Trying to make the most of it

Not depressed enough to get paid for it

Trying to make the most of it

Not depressed enough to get paid for it

Did I start my life out

All wrong?

I think there must be more to this

I think there must be more to this

I think there must be more to this

I think there must be more to this

Than sitting around

And dying

Is “it” just “life” in general? As in, “I’m not depressed enough to just hunker down, grab some soul-sucking job, and simply persist in the way that a rock or a dead tree stump might persist, while ignoring all the beautiful possibilities that being alive promises”? That’s what I’m betting on.

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