Dopamine Fiend

It always starts out with the best of intentions
Next to religion, man's greatest invention
Swiss army knife communication device
With far too many features now to ever fully mention
But, uh, let me give it a shot
Before you even unlock, It acts as a clock
One quick swipe right to access the camera
A tap or two later now this bitch is a calendar
Calculator, flashlight, GPS, cookbook
Photo filter apps to make you feel like you look good
Beat maker, music player, note pad to write upon
Half of the lyrics to this song were typed on one
A time tracking app if you've got billable hours
Farmville to the rescue to kill a few hours
Beer and wine apps track what you like to drink
YouTube tutorials to fix the kitchen sink
If you're prone to addiction, now you know you've been given
A socially acceptable dopamine prescription
You feel that little twitch in your pocket where it's sitting
People getting rich making that shit more addicting
So I'm thinking maybe we should stop and think
About the ways in which we've put our selves right on the brink
Of like societal collapse or maybe just short of that
Or perhaps my stupid ass just needs to relax

Scrolling on that screen dopamine fiend
Everybody knows its true

There's a reason that it's in the big 3
Along with your wallet and your keys, things you check for when you leave
Got you patting down your pockets like a TSA agent
Aww shit this song's about to be a PSA ain't it
I'm not here to shit upon what I read news in the shitter on
Hop on Amazon and snag a bong
Doomscroll twitter for a hundred minutes too long
Then post a meme, like "why can't we all get along?"
The dopamine creates an opening
A crack in the defenses where they're focusing
They hope to rope you in without you noticing
Tell you what you oughta wear and what you're sposed to sing
Remind you what you need when you go for your groceries
Next thing you know it's showing photos of your homies
You miss em so you're reminiscing wishing you could go see
Travel ad pops up tickets for a low fee - click
Huh, look at that - how convenient
An impulse purchase spurred and then made expedient
You doubt that's by design, then I don't know what to tell ya
But I just googled some bridges and I found a few I could sell ya
Instant access to gratification
In return for your data getting aggregated and
If that fact makes you aggravated, I've got just the thing
A hit of dopamine, I know you'll gladly take it

Scrolling on that screen dopamine fiend
Everybody knows its true

Look, if you doubt that it's true
Think about all things it can do
Everything imaginable under the sun
But here we are filming people out in public coming undone
Sometimes I watch and laugh to feel better bout myself
Sometimes I just ignore it which is better for my health
Sometimes the schadenfreude gets exploited to the point that it's
A national phenomenon for all of our enjoyment
And who are we, to judge the people acting foolishly
We all exist in the pudding where the proof'll be
The ease with which it happens now is lunacy
Look at us sharing everything that we do and eat
The pain and the pleasure the rage and the weather
Small talk and politics you mix em all together
In the same spot, what do you got?
You got the be all end all pandoras box
But remember when we used to just space out?
Now given a minute of boredom, watch us take out
The magical screen, and point it straight at our face wow
Fill up the voids that we avoid like the plague now
Thanks for coming to TED talk about cell phone
Did we learn a god damn thing, oh hell no
Gimme a minute, I'll be right back in it
I'm a dopamine fiend and unashamed to admit it

Scrolling on that screen dopamine fiend
Everybody knows its true