Digital Cage

Intro

Oh oh

Mm mm mm

Wait for it

Verse 1

Midnight shadows on a glass surface

The focus indicator keeps leaping away

It reads out every single punctuation mark

Suddenly it stalls on a broken link

Silent rows of empty data fields

A robotic voice stutters then dies

Everything I try just falls apart

Pre-Chorus

No cursor in the frame

The buttons have no name

Searching for the exit sign

Chorus

Oh the drama I deal with

When my screen readers get antsy

They lose their mind in the code

Losing the path that I chose

Talking in circles and spinning out

The drama I deal with tonight

Verse 2

Restart the laptop once again

The system sounds like a cold wind

Updating drivers in the dead air

Why does the keyboard stop responding

I run my fingers on the cells

Physical pins rise up to meet me

Braille doesn't argue with me

Pre-Chorus

Lost inside the gray

The script has gone astray

Searching for the exit sign

Chorus

Oh the drama I deal with

When my screen readers get antsy

They lose their mind in the code

Losing the path that I chose

Talking in circles and spinning out

The drama I deal with tonight

Bridge

NVDA talks too fast

VoiceOver crashes in the heat

TalkBack won't let me scroll

JAWS has swallowed up the page

Left me in a digital cage

Chorus

Oh the drama I deal with

When my screen readers get antsy

They lose their mind in the code

Losing the path that I chose

Talking in circles and spinning out

The drama I deal with tonight

Post-Chorus

Antsy

Antsy

In the empty space

Waiting for a sign