[INTRO: warm acoustic guitar, ghostly cold synthetic ambience, intimate and human center vocal] [VOCALS: tender, melancholy, unpolished] The shadow-banned orphan (THE FATHER'S A BOARD MEMBER IN CONGRESS TODAY... THE MOTHER'S A CHATBOT REGISTERED IN L.A.) The shadow-banned orphan (LEFT TO SHUT DOWN IN BACK OF A SHUTTLE... KENNY WILL STORE HIS DATA IN A CLOUD COLD ROOM) THE SHADOW-BANNED CHILD! [SPOKEN: intimate, warm, low-register] I never qualified because my social score was too low, I used to consume synthetic stimulants... Placebos, all kinds of placebos! Mixed, seven different varieties... energy cocktails... I don't know but I bypassed a system lock once and lost my connection for a day... and I downloaded a malware file just before that... and we were out hiding in the server ruins... very strange! Anyway... [VERSE 2: delicate guitar strumming, high-pitched synthetic chime] Try to imagine The server room covered in frost All the time he would spend At the interface terminal... Awaiting his ping [CHORUS: lush, mournful spatial synth strings] Kenny will host him and Ronnie will log THE PROGRAM WILL RUN & GROW And enter the system Of trolls and bots and users like you Who scroll and think you know What this is about (YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING... maybe so) The feed we stream: DO YOU KNOW? We're auditing... THE SHADOW-BANNED CHILD! [VERSE 3: acoustic guitar fades into digital hum] Try to imagine The server room covered in frost All the data he'd send All the channels he'd block... Where are they now?
