[Intro - distorted system tones, low industrial pulse] Something went wrong. Not recently. Way before that. [Verse 1 - restrained rap, building aggression] We put the whole world inside a little screen Every answer ever written sitting underneath our thumbs Then we handed out a microphone to everybody breathing Now the dumbest thing you've heard gets repeated till it's won My printer needs an update just to print a fucking page My refrigerator wants my email and my birth date Every lightbulb needs an app just to light the fuckin' place And my doctor's office faxes like it's nineteen ninety-eight We built cars that steer themselves and autonomous flying drones Put computers on our wrists and cameras inside our homes Got a robot writing music while I'm fighting with Bluetooth It says that it's connected, but no fucking sound comes through Every service needs a password, every password needs a code Every code goes to a phone that just decided not to load We've got twenty ways to talk and nobody communicates Tell me this was really what the future was supposed to be [Pre-Chorus - drums climbing] Something slipped Somewhere back there Someone touched something They shouldn't have touched Now every day gets more absurd And no one says a word [Chorus - huge melodic scream / gang vocals] WE LIVE IN THE WORST TIMELINE Somebody fucked with the design Every headline's lost its mind Every dumbass gets airtime WE LIVE IN THE WORST TIMELINE Nothing works but everything's online If this is progress, we're declining Somebody find the fucking rewind [Post-Chorus] Wrong turn Wrong year Wrong fucking universe [Verse 2 - faster rap, heavier guitars] Billionaires are launching rockets into outer space While somebody skips a meal because they can't afford the rate They’re announcing record profits, and their stocks climb up again But your subscription goes up seven dollars just because it can Every product has an app now, every app collects your life Your toaster probably knows more shit about you than your wife Everything you ever clicked is catalogued somewhere forever But ask anyone what happened, suddenly no one remembers Algorithms make us angry 'cause we're easier to sell Feed us what will keep us busy sitting there and raising hell Then we're fighting complete strangers over thirty-second clips While somebody makes a fortune off the bullshit on our lips Human knowledge without limits, every library combined Every theorem, every language, every century online And what did we accomplish with this miracle we made? We taught machines to generate shrimp Jesus for engagement [Beat abruptly stops] [Spoken] Hold on. We invented artificial intelligence... We gave it access to basically everything humanity has ever learned... And we use it to make pictures of shrimp Jesus? [long pause] ...we're fucked. [Breakdown - massive down-tuned riff] THIS CANNOT BE THE PRIME TIMELINE THIS CANNOT BE THE PRIME TIMELINE SOMEBODY TOUCHED THE WRONG FUCKING BUTTON [Instrumental Breakdown - mechanical percussion, bass drops, guitar chugs] [Bridge - half-time, darker] Maybe somewhere there's another us Where common sense survived Where machines make shit more simple And the humans still can drive Where buying something means you own it Where the truth survives a day Where your fucking washing machine Doesn't need an OTA [Build] But we don't live there. We live here. [Final Chorus - biggest delivery] WE LIVE IN THE WORST TIMELINE Somebody fucked with the design Every headline's lost its mind Every dumbass gets airtime WE LIVE IN THE WORST TIMELINE Nothing works but everything's online We reached the future, looked around And somehow left our brains behind WE LIVE IN THE WORST TIMELINE No instructions, no lifeline Reality has stopped responding AND WE KEEP CLICKING "WAIT" [Outro - corrupted startup tones] [Spoken] Humanity version twenty twenty-six. Update complete. Fixed: Nothing. Known issues: ...yes.
