(Beat starts with nostalgic Game of Thrones theme morphing into air raid sirens)

Verse 1 (The Before Times)

Remember 2014? Ice Bucket Challenges poured,

World Cup in Brazil, Germany left 'em floored.

Ferguson burned while we danced to "Happy",

Kanye married Kim - reality got scrappy.

2015 - marriage equality wins,

But Paris attacks left blood on the gym.

Trump rode the escalator down to hell,

While Drake dropped "Hotline Bling" and broke the spell.

2016 - Brexit votes shook the EU,

Harper Lee died then Prince left too.

Pokémon GO had us chasing dreams,

While Aleppo's children screamed in memes.

Hook 1 (Nostalgia's Curse)

"We were young and the world was wide,

Laughing through the coming tide.

Filters on the ugly truth,

Dancing while the roof caught fire..."

(Beat fractures into trap snares and distorted news clips)

Verse 2 (Fracture Points)

2017 - #MeToo rose like a flood,

Weinstein's castle drowned in blood.

Las Vegas shooter, nuclear tweets,

While Logan Paul filmed suicide feats.

2018 - Tide Pods? Really kids?

Parkland students flipped the grid.

Kanye loved Trump, Twitter gasped,

While Thailand trapped those soccer lads.

2019 - Notre Dame in flames,

Boris Johnson played his games.

Area 51 raids failed (of course),

While Epstein's "suicide" got the meme treatment first.

Bridge (The Calm Before)

"Live, laugh, love" on kitchen walls,

Influencers posed as Rome burned slow.

We joked about end times so much,

That when they came - nobody budged.

(Beat collapses into industrial noise and ventilator sounds)

Verse 3 (Plague Years)

2020 - Bat soup jokes turned real,

Toilet paper wars at the grocery ordeal.

Zoom birthdays, Tiger King's rise,

While George Floyd's murder opened eyes.

2021 - Capitol Hill breached,

Vax cards became the new ID.

NFTs sold jpegs for millions,

While Afghanistan fell to old villains.

2022 - Russia crossed the line,

Zelensky's suit became a sign.

Roe v Wade got overturned,

While Queen Liz's reign adjourned.

Hook 2 (Collapse Chorus)

"One step forward, three steps burned,

History's loop - when will we learn?

Scroll and doom, doom and scroll,

While the iceberg takes the whole..."

(Beat rebuilds with AI-generated vocals and haunting piano)

Verse 4 (New Abnormal)

2023 - AI wrote our essays,

ChatGPT did homework passes.

Twitter died by Elon's hand,

While Gaza's kids played in bombed-out sand.

2024 - Deepfake elections loom,

Swift's tour crashed Ticketmaster's doom.

OceanGate's rich got crushed too soon,

While millennials priced out every room.

Final Bridge (Questions)

"Did we win? Did we lose?

Or just get used to the nightly news?

The kids are alright? The kids aren't well -

Their childhoods were active shooter drills..."

(Beat fades into satellite static)

"This has been a test of the Emergency Broadcast System...

Had this been an actual decade,

You would have been instructed

Where to go and how to feel...

Please stand by."