Mick Hills Poet Rhyme

Look At Me When I'M Talking To You

Look at me when I’m talking to you.   

Verse 1
Have drink, meet at the pub, fool around and have some grub                      
Sitting round not a care in sight, jokes and laughs all through the night      
This is how it used to be, no mobile phones or Sky T V

Verse 2
Get on line, free wifi here, living the dream in a virtual sphere 
Order my food from my latest App, then tell the world if it’s crap
Facetube, hashtag, post on line, tell the world everythings fine

Chorus
Tim Berners Lee what have you done, gave us the web, then killed our fun
Conversation a thing of the past, glare at screens, type it in fast
Look at me when I’m talking to you, forget Facetube and wannadoo

Verse 3
Gotta tablet, reader and mobile phone, chatting on line, I’m not alone
Virtual friends are easy to please, no eye to eye, or hands to squeeze   
Going to town’s just a pointless trip, I got it all here at my finger tip

Verse 4
I’d like to think one day you’ll change, take a step back and re-arrange
Conversations try it and see, turn off that phone, just talk to me 
It’s easy when you really try,  say hello to a passer by 

Chorus
Tim Berners Lee what have you done, gave us the web, then killed our fun
Conversation a thing of the past, glare at screens, type it in fast
Look at me when I’m talking to you, forget Facetube and wannadoo


Please just put that phone down, We’re out just having a drink and enjoying ourselves
Turn that phone off, don’t keep looking at that phone
Turn it off, put it in your pocket and we’ll have a conversation
Doesn’t matter what we talk about, let’s just have a conversation

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Ann Foster November 4, 2019 at 8:07 AM we are out, not the phone and us... just we, you and me... Excellent write. Have the very nicest day. Ann

Caren Krutsinger November 4, 2019 at 7:38 AM "turn off that phone, just talk to me " - I have stopped lunching with one friend who cannot look at me the entire time, choosing instead to look at her phone every time it dings. It is exasperating! Glad you wrote this one.

Mick Hills November 4, 2019 at 3:57 AM These are lyrics from a song I wrote, a bit of a rant really, about how phones have hijacked our conversation