[Intro | Vinyl crackle] [Male Rap] Back in the sixties, Morrison stood there, Leather trousers, enormous hair, Said, "We want the world and we want it..." [Hard stop] [Male Spoken] NOW. [Beat drops] [Male Spoken] Fair enough. Bit ambitious for a Tuesday, but I admire the commitment. [Verse 1] [Male Rap] Somewhere between free love and free delivery, We took that sentence rather literally. Want a film? Right now. Want food? Right now. Want something pointless? Prime'll have it round somehow. [Male Rap] Used to wait six weeks for something in the post, Now twenty-seven minutes feels too long. Tracking says the driver's two streets away... [Beat stop] [Male Spoken] Why? What's he doing? Who is he TALKING TO? [Female Spoken] Your delivery window is between nine and twelve. [Male Spoken] Yeah, but he's THERE. [Female Spoken] Then he will arrive shortly. [Male Spoken] That's not the point. [Female Spoken] It rather appears to be. [Beat slams back] [Verse 2] [Male Rap] Somewhere in all this progress we've made, We turned into Veruca Salt with contactless pay. Not "I'd quite like the world," Not "when you've got the time," Nah, I paid for next-day, so that thing is bloody mine. [Male Rap] Walked in for coffee, just fancied a brew, Bloke asks seventeen things before he lets me through. Single, double, skinny, oat, wet or dry or flat? [Male Spoken] Mate... I JUST WANT A COFFEE. [Female Spoken] Which size? [Male Spoken] Normal. [Female Spoken] That is not a size. [Male Spoken] Cup-sized! [Female Spoken] Small, medium or large? [Male Spoken] The middle one! [Female Spoken] Medium. [Male Spoken] THAT'S WHAT I SAID. [Turntable scratch] [Chorus 1] [Female Sung] You can have it now, you can have it your way, anything you want before the end of the day. Take another little pleasure, put tomorrow on the shelf. [Female Spoken] Have whatever you want, darling. [Male Spoken] Lovely. [Female Spoken] You will pay for it yourself. [Bass drop] [Verse 3] [Male Rap] Then there's choice. [Male Spoken] Bloody choice. [Male Rap] Went out for milk. Used to be easy. Cow, oat, almond, soy, coconut if you're feeling breezy. Barista oat, organic oat, cashew, hemp [Beat stop] [Male Spoken] Who's milking all these plants? [Female Spoken] Nobody is milking them. [Male Spoken] You know what I mean. [Female Spoken] Precisely. [Male Rap] Forty kinds of hummus, crisps in flavours no one needs, Six streaming apps suggesting things I've already seen. Spent forty minutes choosing what to watch last night. [Female Spoken] What did you choose? [Male Spoken] Nothing. Went to bed. [Female Spoken] How productive. [Male Spoken] Don't start. [Male Rap] Phone buzzes. Pick it up. Check the news, watch a dog, buy some socks, check the score. Put it down. [Two seconds later] [Male Spoken] Where's my bloody phone?! [Female Spoken] It is in your hand. [Silence] [Male Spoken] ...Right. [Chorus 2] [Female Sung] You can have it now, you can have it on demand, one little tap and it's already in your hand. Nothing here will stop you, there is always something more. [Male Spoken] What's it costing me? [Female Spoken] You never asked before. [Dirty bass drop] [Verse 4] [Male Rap] Buy now, pay later, one click, job done, Everything's convenient till the bloody bill comes. Apps want my location, shops want my email, Every site I visit apparently needs my details. [Male Rap] Blaming algorithms, adverts and the apps, Corporations and their little dopamine traps. Choice overload, decision fatigue— [Beat stop] [Male Spoken] Hang on. What's this costin' me? [Female Spoken] Money. [Male Spoken] Fine. [Female Spoken] Time. [Male Spoken] Right. [Female Spoken] Privacy. [Male Spoken] Hang on. [Female Spoken] Sleep. [Male Spoken] Steady on. [Female Spoken] Attention. [Male Spoken] You're taking the piss. [Female Spoken] I assure you, I am not. [Male Spoken] Can I cancel? [Female Spoken] You accepted the cookies. [Male Spoken] I didn't read 'em! [Female Spoken] Nobody does. [Silence] [Male Spoken] ...Bollocks. [Final Chorus] [Female Sung] You had it now, you had it your way, everything you wanted before the end of the day. You paid with your patience, your money and your time, gave away your attention one little piece at a time. [Outro] [Male Rap] Maybe it ain't Starbucks, Amazon or phones. Maybe we keep asking and they give us what we chose. Could blame corporations, could blame the bloody apps, But I'm the mug still scrolling through the same addictive crap. [Male Spoken] That's it. I'm done. Deleting all of it. Taking back my time [Male Spoken | notification sound underneath] What's that? [Female Spoken] A special offer. [Male Spoken] Ignore it. [Female Spoken] Fifty per cent off. [Male Spoken] ...What on? [Female Spoken] Mate. [Long silence] [Male Spoken] Did you just call me mate? [Female Spoken] Your free trial ends on Tuesday. [Massive bass drop] [Male Spoken] Oh, Bollocks! [Instrumental Outro | End]
