SIDE QUEST #2

Week two... it got worse. [Verse 1] Day fourteen of the war and the body count's climbing, Two thousand dead in Iran and the world keeps rewinding, Three point two million displaced, fleeing Tehran in the dark, While we scroll past the numbers like it's just another mark, Kharg Island obliterated, every military site, Trump said he spared the oil "for reasons of decency," right? But threaten to hit it next if the strait don't open wide, Meanwhile sixteen ships attacked just trying to get inside, Hormuz locked down, oil at a hundred a barrel, Gas up twenty-two months, every pump is a peril, New supreme leader's the son of the one that they killed, First statement from the throne: "We will not yield," State Department dropped a bounty — ten million on his head, Plus a relocation package if you want him found or dead, Six Americans gone when a tanker plane went down, No hostile fire, no ejection seats, just crashed into the ground, [Hook] Side quest number two, the sequel's getting darker, Every week the headlines hit a little bit harder, Doom scroll, gas pump, missile, press conference, Nothing makes sense but we gotta stay conscious, Say less, say less — another seven days, Same fire, different week, same American haze, [Verse 2] Trump says he'll know it's over when he feels it in his bones, No metrics, no endgame, no criteria, no zones, A hundred seventy-five dead at a school — mostly girls, He said Iran bombed itself, his own Pentagon wouldn't confirm those words, Video showed the evidence, a Tomahawk did the deed, But the president said "I don't know enough" — that's the lead, Congress asking fifty billion more to fund the fight, Two-fifty organizations said reject it overnight, Lebanon's at eight hundred thousand displaced in two weeks, Beirut bombed in the center now, not just the southern streets, Six hundred eighty-seven dead, ninety-eight of them were kids, Israel dropped the charges on the soldiers who abused, Palestinian prisoners — case closed, justice refused, Evacuation zone just doubled across the south, Oman catching drones now, workers dying on the job, Pakistani man said "if I don't work then I don't eat" — that's the cost, Saudi shot down fifty-six drones in a single day, NATO intercepting missiles headed Turkey's way, Iran pulled out the World Cup, can't play when your country's burning, F1 cancelled Bahrain and Saudi, no races, world is turning, [Hook] Side quest number two, the sequel's getting darker, Every week the headlines hit a little bit harder, Doom scroll, gas pump, missile, press conference, Nothing makes sense but we gotta stay conscious, Say less, say less — another seven days, Same fire, different week, same American haze, [Verse 3] Back home it ain't much better, shooter hit a campus Thursday, Old Dominion University, ROTC kids saved the day, FBI said former guardsman, ISIS ties, convicted felon, Same night someone rammed into Temple Israel in Michigan, FBI confirmed it targeted the Jewish congregation, Two attacks on safe spaces in a single evening session, DOGE is in the Social Security data, whistleblower rang the bell, Accountant on the stand said he ain't know about the crimes, New Mexico reopened the ranch probe they closed in twenty-nineteen, Switch the channel, different crisis, same machine, Mariachi brothers locked in ICE for checking in on schedule, Twelve and fourteen, award-winning kids, detained at every level, Lawmakers got 'em out but how'd they get there in the first place? Following the rules and still got cages as a workspace, But Sunday's Oscar night, Sinners got sixteen nominations, Conan gonna host it — brief commercial break from devastation, [Bridge] Artemis II locked in, April first we aim for the moon, Housing bill passed the Senate, bipartisan, not a moment too soon, Funny how we build rockets to leave while the house is on fire, Pass a bill to build homes while the rent keeps climbing higher, Oil at a hundred, gas at three-sixty-three, Solar getting blocked by the same administration that needs the energy, AI eating the grid while the sun gets legislated out, That's the side quest — building fires then selling the way out, [Outro] Week two in the books, Jin and Aperture, still here, See you next Saturday.