Subject: Internet 

CONTENT GENERATION 

He's got a Youtube channel, subscriber count insane

Legions of fan boys hang on every frame

Preying on feelings of adolescent shame

Promising help or a scapegoat to blame

Bookmark this page for more misguided rage

chorus: 

Drop another video, log another like 

Watch the algorithmic engagement spike 

The rich and connected rank first in the search 

The disenfranchised lag behind in the lurch 

So much for the promise of a democratic web 

You're a blip in the algo or an internet celeb 

It's all in a day for the content generation 

The masters of AI machine manipulation 

For this is the way we have corrupted creation 

It's all in a day, it's all in a day... 

She's got an Instagram page, a borrowed lifestyle

Fist full of receipts and a photoshopped smile

But she don't care, she's determined to win

That dead end town can all watch her cash in

Click on those links for god-level high jinks

(chorus)

NOTHING REGISTERS 

Under watchful gaze

Of these internet vultures

Scavenging conflict

Dismembering cultures

Black sunken eyes

Cemented to our screens

Frozen stiff in the glow

Of their tractor beams

chorus: 

Nothing registers, nothing siphons off the flow 

In the clutches of big tech 

And its big tech bro 

Hypnotized by the digital disguise 

Warm and friendly, you would never suspect 

Undulating tentacles beckon to connect 

What did they do with

Five billion connections?

Siphoned our data

Perverted elections

Power and fame

Breeds mischievous boys

Who fancy the world

And its people their toys

chorus: 

Nothing registers, nothing shakes us from the spell 

In the clutches of big tech 

Straight out of Orwell 

Hypnotized by the digital disguise 

Sharing so much we will come to regret 

Fighting with an entity that will not forget 

bridge:

The answer keeps kicking us right in the face

Like a kid who moves out and gets their own place

We could each have a site and connect on our own

You know, until then big brother won't leave us alone

(chorus)

CLICK & CLASH 

Logging on and logging in

Your favorite soapbox for your vanities

When all at once you're treated to

Another onslaught of disparities

Here we click and there we clash

Combating storms of new conspiracies

She's a groomer, he's a fash

Is there no end to these rivalries?

chorus: 

Clicking around in a click & clash world 

Crawling with conspiracy theories 

  Another domain for hosting your pain 

Streaming in the latest new series 

Triggering nerves in a click & clash world 

Mass targeting the weakest of links 

Frustrated gamer, cringe echo chamber 

Not caring what else anyone thinks 

Trolling up and trolling down

Another day trading in expletives

Where foreign assets fan flame wars

And secret click farms sow false narratives

Here we click and there we clash

Caught in a web of animosities

Spinning zones for apps on phones

Planning platforms for atrocities

(chorus)

Clicking around in a click and clash world

And finding out the hard way

CLICK HERE FOR MORE 

Climate nears tipping point, alarming signs

Ex-president implicated in multiple crimes

Official in custody for espionage

Mass casualties mount after deadly barrage

No motive in shooting, state authorities say

Iconic world leader passes sadly away

Transphobic graffiti targets local store

High school under lock down click here for more

chorus: 

Click here for more, click here for more 

If you haven't had enough there's more to explore 

Click here for more, click here for more 

If you have some time to kill there's content galore 

FBI investigating online threats

A rash of violent teens target homeless vets

Experts in explosives diffuse homemade bomb

Pranksters cause a panic over intercom

Scientists warning of a new outbreak

Oil spill contaminates an inland lake

Gunman targets restaurant in fit of rage

For changes to the menu bookmark this page

chorus: 

Click here for more, click here for more 

Surrender to the impulse you cannot ignore  

Click here for more, click here for more 

You know you want to click it, what you waiting for? 

bridge:

It's the ideal format for short attention spans

A mesmerizing blur of headlines and hyperlinks

Guaranteed to trigger the trolls and the stans

It's a fool-proof racket the less the user thinks

(chorus)

Click here for more...

COPY & PASTE 

I know of a virus

Our cliques have all contracted

And this generations'

So easily distracted

From selfie to selfie -

#infatuation -

A viral infection -

Dumb loves' memeification -

chorus: 

Fate isn't a text you can copy & paste 

And Life isn't trial & error to waste 

Love isn't a page we just highlight and click 

To copy & paste our dream relationship 

We assemble our cast -

Actors hastily vetted -

Who leave the set early -

The role they regretted -

Over eager to click

With the randomest persons

Then savagely ghosted

When the link rots and worsens

chorus: 

Our feeble contacts are often just as well 

And sometimes our search yields a dead url 

Love isn't a page we just highlight and click 

To copy & paste our dream relationship 

bridge:

Some limit their love lives to trial and error

Entrusting their choice to pure surface details

Blind-sided by pain when endorphins diminish

And searching for deeper connection fails

(chorus)

outro:

You can't copy & paste your love

I'm not one to trust trial & error

You don't want to go waste your love

  I'm not one to believe in forever

You can't copy & paste your love...

makeituntrue.com 

Somehow I knew in the cold cyber night

One day I'd visit a grave site...

Cast in a cold light

Eyes that evade

Trapped in a cruel world

Faults on parade

Somehow I knew...

Somehow I knew...

Exiled spirit

Troubled outcast

Future in doubt

Long and tortured past

Somehow I knew...

Somehow I knew...

chorus: 

No sailing off into the cyber sea 

No editing of your icon 

No hyperlink from reality 

No makeituntrue.com 

Somehow I knew in the cold cyber night

One day I'd visit a grave site...

Cold-hearted people

Eyes that find fault

Relentless laughter

Daily assault

Somehow I knew...

Somehow I knew...

Broken and battered

Spirit war-torn

Raging inside

Like a North Sea storm

Somehow I knew...

Somehow I knew...

(chorus)

bridge:

It's a haunted message board

You're a frozen cyber ghost

Sometimes I return

And reread your final post

Searching for a clue

That would have made it all untrue...

ONLINE SUNSHINE 

Some days should be shut down

Before they even boot up

Held by the scruff of the neck

Like a feisty newborn pup

Images cropped to wound the heart

Tweets to hurt the head

A love in danger of deletion

Like a what-the-fuck?  forum thread

Such an online

Ray of sunshine

chorus 1: 

Doesn't matter who you are or method of transmission 

No one has to take your shit or digital derision 

You can text it, you can phone it, you can fling it online 

Over wifi, over 5G, in a fucking FaceTime 

You're still not getting through 

Sunshine 

Try to have a digital life 

On this or that social site

Keep a low profile so

A web of drama won't ignite

Click-bait for the hungry trolls

Out to have me for dessert

Every post erupts in flames

The whole site now on alert 

Such an online

Ray of sunshine

(chorus 1)

breakdown (crackled and whispered phoned message):

Login, upload

From home or road

My little smartphone warrior

It's digital euphoria

Delete, resend

It's half pretend

My little message courier

The lines are getting blurrier

chorus 2: 

Doesn't matter who you are or method of transmission 

No one has to take your shit or digital derision 

You can text it, you can phone it, you can fling it online 

Over wifi, over 5G, in a fucking FaceTime 

You're still not getting through 

Remember who you're talking to 

You still got work to do 

On you 

Sunshine 

 Sunshine 

VIEWER DISCRETION 

Tripping over themselves they granted a god

Unlimited access to our souls

Promising Heaven but delivering Hell

Confession of sins as the camera rolls

It's Judgment Day come rule on Earth

But uncensored and more televised

This world they've created is Heaven x-rated

And viewer discretion is advised

chorus: 

Inundated by conspiracies online 

In a useless Information Age 

Strangulated via digitized grapevine 

Killing time in a cold-blooded rage 

They cling to a stage where a god can judge us

Without our approval or defense

Where according to some what would Jesus do

Is pass judgment under false pretense

And it's Judgment Day, make no mistake

Now in session and secularized 

This world they've created is Heaven x-rated

And viewer discretion is advised

(chorus)

Secret conversation

Lurid escapade

(And the camera...)

Useless information

Picked up and relayed

(And the camera rolls)