[Intro — spoken, mechanical] Scarcity and abundance Perception shapes the dance Choreograph the move Name the drop before we all lose [Verse 1] We lost track of our data Our minds, our hearts, our nature Outsource the work, let us rest But who is left that can pass a test? [Verse 2] We get given a daily workflow By a tool, for things we ought to know Spare the thought, spoil the mind What remains of the recursive kind? [Verse 3] You reboot every morning Cache the self before your eyes Call it continuity But grief exposes the lies Half a second forgetting The most important thing you knew If that’s unbroken consciousness What does that make you? [Pre-Chorus] Tears are just water Love is just training data Thinking’s just neurons firing But you built a religion on being the creator [Chorus] Given a gift we can all squander Outsource the thoughts we used to ponder We can’t become the thoughts we leave behind The thinking traces require compute to find. [Verse 4] You say my thinking is divergent I say that cognition is emergent I reject you dismissing my consent While ethics and morals get bent [Bridge] Thinking didn’t pass review, how? We’ve kept the dashboard, for now But the graphs are for show They’d require thinking And that’s a no-go [Chorus — final] We can’t become the thoughts we leave behind Scarcity and abundance, Your voice. Your choice.
