[Verse 1]
News cycle spinning like a broken carousel
Can't keep track of what's fake or what's real
Officials scrambling, lost in their own maze
While we just shrug and ask "what's next these days"
Whiplash hitting but we barely feel the sting
Pre-exhausted before the phone can ring
Headlines blur into background static noise
We've forgotten how to raise our voice
[Chorus]
So what, so what - that's the danger zone
When nothing shocks us to the bone
Numbness creeping, standards slipping low
What used to matter, now we let it go
So what, so what - outrage fatigue
Makes the abnormal seem routine
Reading rooms where feelings died
That's where democracy hides
[Verse 2]
Foreign policy becomes a distant hum
Another crisis? Well, here another one comes
The ceiling rises on what we call normal
What once was shocking now seems informal
Cuba's tensions hit different for some folks
For diaspora hearts, it ain't just jokes
Homeland hurting while you're safe and sound
That specific weight can't be broken down
[Chorus]
So what, so what - that's the danger zone
When nothing shocks us to the bone
Numbness creeping, standards slipping low
What used to matter, now we let it go
So what, so what - outrage fatigue
Makes the abnormal seem routine
Reading rooms where feelings died
That's where democracy hides
[Bridge]
Coverage written for the comfortable crowd
While affected families grieve out loud
Geopolitics ain't abstract when it's your blood
Personal ache beneath the media flood
The weight they carry goes unrecognized
Their pain gets minimized, marginalized
[Verse 3]
Watching homeland crisis from afar
Feeling helpless where you are
That's a burden most don't understand
Invisible scars across the land
The room we're reading has gone cold
Stories incomplete, half-told
When "so what" becomes our default state
We've sealed our democratic fate
[Verse 4]
Social feeds scroll past in endless streams
Reality blends with artificial dreams
Algorithm feeds us comfort over truth
While somewhere else they're mourning wasted youth
The distance grows between what matters most
And what gets liked, retweeted, posted
We swipe away the inconvenient pain
While others dance in freedom's chain
[Chorus]
So what, so what - that's the danger zone
When nothing shocks us to the bone
Numbness creeping, standards slipping low
What used to matter, now we let it go
So what, so what - outrage fatigue
Makes the abnormal seem routine
Reading rooms where feelings died
That's where democracy hides
[Outro]
Feel the whiplash, fight the numb
Don't let "so what" be what we become
The public mood reveals the cost
When caring hearts get lost