Attention Returned

Verse

Every screen keeps score of your time

Feeding on focus, the currency it mines

Every scroll is a toll, quiet and slow

Attention's a loan, but the interest won't show

Pre-Hook

They sell you the mirror, call it connection

Trade you a like for a borrowed reflection

Hook

Everybody's broke, everybody's overdrawn

Closed hands can't cash what's not withdrawn

(not withdrawn)

You can't take what you never spend

Attention's a debt, not a dividend

(not a dividend)

Break

Verse

Every notification, a knock at the door

Answer it empty, you're left wanting more

Every feed is a need that they engineer

Built to keep taking while you disappear

Pre-Hook

They sell you the mirror, call it connection

Trade you a like for a borrowed reflection

Hook

Everybody's broke, everybody's overdrawn

Closed hands can't cash what's not withdrawn

(not withdrawn)

You can't take what you never spend

Attention's a debt, not a dividend

(not a dividend)

Verse

Every timeline's a room full of ghosts

Every ping is a debt you repost

Every follow's a name that erases your own

Attention's a loan, and it never leaves you alone

Bridge

Look up, look close, look long

Give it away before it's gone

(before it's gone)

The eyes you lend are the ones you keep

What you pour out is what runs deep

Build

Give it, give it, give it back

Give it, give it, till you get what you lack

Hook

Everybody's flush, everybody's in the black

Open hands are the ones who get it back

(get it back)

Every gift you give comes back to stack

Attention returned, that's a fact

Outro