"Scrolling"
By Owen Strain

Intro:

G                          Em
Twenty nineteen feels like not long ago
C                               D
What have you been up to, where did you all go?


Chorus:

G                         Em
I can speak for myself, I didn't go far
C                             D
Though I was inside, I didn't practice guitar
G                          Em
I spent COVID online and I lived in a daze
C                            D
I'd stare at my phone til it fell on my face
G                             Em
The pandemic was long but the time went by fast
C                              D
How did you all spend it, what did you scroll past?
D
I scrolled past...


Verse 1:

G                 C               G              D
Lots of memes, so much food porn; baby photos of your newborn
G            C         G                D
Anti-maskers anti-vax; horse dewormers, made up facts
G                 C              G             D
Stuck on mute and stuck on Zoom; get me out of this damn room
G                 C              G               D
Parklets take the place of cars; sit outdoors at all the bars
G                     C              G              D
George Floyd murdered in the street; Breonna Taylor in her sleep
G                   C          G       D           D
Smoke for days from wildfires; AQI and purifiers


[Chorus]


Verse 2:

G            C               G             D
Shortages of microchips; and backups of container ships
G         C            G             D
Evergiven run aground; prices rising all around
G              C        G               D
Delta wave and omicron; getting boosted in my arm
G              C          G              D
Solving Wordle every day; guess ADIEU as my first play
G             C                   G          D
Netflix tryna rot my brain; first Tiger King now Squid Game
G            C      G                D           D
Insurrection in DC; there goes our democracy


[Chorus]


Verse 3:

G              C           G                D
Russian losses in Ukraine; seems like Putin has no brain
G                  C                  G              D
Watch our freedoms crash and burn; as Row v. Wade is overturned
G                 C           G           D
Now Great Britain has a king; who decided that's a thing?
G           C    G                D
New AI, ChatGPT; approaching singularity
G                 C              G                D
Twitter bought by Elon Musk; and quickly turned into husk
G                 C                 G        D           D
Ponzi schemes one after next; first NFTs now FTX


[Chorus]