LYRIC: Right Now (Jan 2025)

We are not all journalists

Despite the tempting sound of this

We have no column and no beat

No urgent deadlines to meet

So why do all our phones go ping

With every alert that comes in?

Why do we interrupt our lives

To keep on top of their headlines?

Why all the urgency?

Need for immediacy?

To see as soon as we can see?

All the latest tragedies?

Do

We really

Need to know

RIGHT NOW?

Keep up with the conversation

Hot takes which divide a nation

The quickest comments get liked first

Encourage us to be our worst

They said become the media

And we did, losing who we were

Hijacked the discourse way off course

We need a digital divorce

Why all the urgency?

Need for immediacy?

To see as soon as we can see?

All the latest tragedies?

Do

We really

Need to know

RIGHT NOW?