Y2K, dial-up, Napster, MP3,
Harry Potter, DVDs, Survivor on TV.
Google climbing, iPod shining, Wikipedia’s born,
Shrek arrives, The Matrix lives, a brand new digital dawn.
September morning, towers falling, world forever changed,
Afghanistan, Iraq began, the headlines rearranged.
American Idol, Pixar’s rise, MySpace says hello,
Facebook spreads from campus halls, YouTube starts to grow.
(Pre-Chorus)
History kept changing gears,
Every month another year.
(Chorus)
Blink and suddenly the world’s brand new,
Every headline rewrites the view.
Names and faces, songs and screens,
Dreams uploaded into streams.
We kept running, no rewind,
Leaving yesterday behind.
Twenty-six years, page by page,
Living in the algorithm age.
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(Verse 2)
Hurricane Katrina, Kindle, Twitter learns to fly,
Iron Man begins a universe reaching to the sky.
Obama, hope, recession fears, smartphones in our hands,
Avatar and Angry Birds, apps remake our plans.
Arab Spring and Occupy, streaming every scene,
Instagram and selfies turn the ordinary seen.
Frozen, “Let It Go,” binge watching Netflix nights,
Tesla charging, SpaceX landing reusable flights.
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(Bridge)
Ice Bucket, Pokémon Go,
Hamilton steals every show.
Brexit, Cubs break the curse,
AI starts to write a verse.
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(Verse 3)
TikTok dances, Tiger King, Zoom becomes our room,
Pandemic silence fills the streets, masks replace perfume.
Vaccines, variants, working home, sourdough everywhere,
Streaming concerts, empty stadiums, learning how to care.
Barbie pink and Oppenheimer, “Barbenheimer” craze,
ChatGPT joins the chat and changes working days.
Taylor’s Eras, Beyoncé, Spider-Verse takes flight,
Artemis heads back toward the Moon, stars back in our sight.
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(Bridge 2)
Ukraine fighting, climate warnings,
Wildfires coloring the mornings.
Electric cars and quantum dreams,
Satellites and endless streams.
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(Final Verse)
Vision Pro and AI images, robots learning names,
Gene editing, fusion hopes, entirely new games.
Olympics, World Cup, semiquincentennial skies,
A quarter century asking us what tomorrow tries.
Every decade leaves a trail, every story grows,
Nobody can stop the river, nobody really knows.
Kids become the ones who teach the things we never knew,
History keeps writing songs, and now it’s singing through you.
(Final Chorus)
Blink and suddenly the world’s brand new,
Every headline rewrites the view.
Every triumph, every scar,
Every dream that brought us far.
Turn the page, the future calls,
New horizons, rising walls.
Twenty-six years, still alive,
Learning how the world survives.
