We grew up feral under porchlight moons Bike chains rattlin’ like outlaw tunes No GPS, no iPhones, no fear sold as news. No algorithmic isolation for your views. We were dumb, yeah, but at least we were real Now truth gets traded like a business deal We had no social platforms recording our lives No AI, no influencers rewiring our minds We built machines to answer everything Now nobody knows what truth even means The kings all lie, the screens all glow And the river keeps pullin’ where we don’t wanna go And I don’t know where this road bends now World leaders grinnin’ while the cities burn down Everybody screamin’ through a shattered screen Nobody sure what anything means Maybe every old man thinks the world went wrong Maybe every new world just feels too far gone But I look in my children’s eyes at night And I can’t shake the feeling something ain’t right We built machines to answer everything Now nobody knows what truth even means The kings all lie, the screens all glow And the river keeps pullin’ where we don’t wanna go Cold War ghosts in a brand-new skin Different battlefield, same fear within We used to duck and cover in the hall Now the war comes custom-built for us all Data-minin’ dreams while we sleep at night Sellin’ our souls back pixel by byte Your every word recorded for all time And every thought gets quantified So I hold my kids a little too tight Watchin’ satellites replace the night Tryin’ to teach ‘em how to stand alone In a world that wants to own their soul Maybe every old man thinks the world went wrong Maybe every new world just feels too far gone But I look in my children’s eyes at night And I can’t shake the feeling something ain’t right
