Titles and applause

Why do we have this need for titles and applause?
What does it mean? What can it be? I know there is a cause,

As time wears on I see it more,
This hustling and bustling to buy stuff at the store.

These titles are nothing but hurt and pain
I know that now there is no gain.

Why must we stop and think of this?
Because we do we miss,
All the important things in life
All that's good and grand
And can not be held in your hand.

Why must we pick who is what?
Why must we worry ourselves with this big rut?

I am not a title
I do not need applause
To stand out in this world
Or to have a cause.

Poser, punk, preppy too…
Why do we do what we do?

Have this need to want to seed,
The delinquencies of it all.

We do it for the titles and for the applause,
Which we so dearly need
All with out a cause.

- Alex Covington