Social Media Shutdown Lyrics

First the TikTok bans, it was in the bag

Then the government came for the @s and hash tag

No matter who it was, if they're tracking for ads

The Socials knew too much, keeping tabs

The president and the folks advising

Said it was security compromising

It was safer to shut it down

Push what grew back into ground

That's what they said, was it in their head?

Too late now, all platforms dead

We didn't have time to vote or protest

They insisted it was for our country's best interest

We were enraged

But couldn't take it to social pages

Downward spiral a black hole collapsed

Onto itself and sucked in the mass

Grams were shuttered, Books were closed

One by one against their will

Blocking our tweeting, no more Tok-ing

The clock stopped ticking, time just stood still

The rhythm of the world now on delete

Our daily rituals all off-beat

Just passing time in awkward silence

In my home lying victim to that awkward science

My phone in my pocket like it always was

Pulled it out to check on that phantom buzz

We're all ghosts now, they don't know anymore

What's become of me, just a memory from before

We're starving, even the living dead need a feed

Some folks telling me they're feeling freed

I need some more time, I'm stuck on hold

Nothing's cooking and the turkey's cold

You take away

I won't let go

You sucked the light

I just don't know

When you've had enough

I won't let go

You sucked the light

You took all the glow

They call it digital detox, on the wagon

I was convinced it would never happen

Others reached it, club of enlightened

It was elusive like Dre's album

It took a year, but now I'm here

I can finally say I got no fear

Of missing out, earning clout

Watching others going about

More time to be outside

More time for being alive

At night now I sleep deep

This lifestyle's one to keep

Time's infinite, state of bliss

Who knew the incident would create this?

Were our sights so wrong before the rift?

Now we're course correcting to compensate the drift

You took it all

I let it go

I see the light

I embraced the flow

You took it all

I let it go

I see the light

I embraced the flow

Another year has past, I know you know that

This state of bliss wouldn't last

We're social creatures all along

Can't stay in solitary thoughts too long

Got the craving for, something more

But won't go back to the ways of before

Rays of before, we raised from the floor

And can't go back to the ways of yore

Was it really a threat to security?

Were they trying to push us to obscurity?

Was it a conspiracy? I don't know

Nowhere to talk about it, that's the irony

We can meet face to face in meat space

But what about those in a different place?

We all knew someone across the globe

And strangers too when our feed would load

What are they doing? What are they chewing?

What are they brewing? What are they viewing?

What are they pranking? What are they dancing?

What are they life hacking?

I heard that some are hacking ways

To reach the mass like in the old days

Conference call on all the time

We're all invited; bring back the party line

Status update on your voicemail greeting

10-eight to the CB Radio meeting

Latest photos transmit by fax

Chain letters with fake news no facts

Current state far from normality

Drifting back to inevitable reality

Timeline shift back to timeline bliss

Binge up on the posts I missed

Scrolling til my battery quits

We'll end the night

We're good to go

We are the light

We're the spark that glows

We'll end the night

We're good to go

We are the light

We're the spark that glows