Algorithm Heart

I’m staring at the blue light till my eyes start to bleed / Scrolling past the garbage in my social media feed / Then I see your face in a blurry little square / With a caption so funny that it isn’t even fair / I’m double-tapping photos from three years ago / I’m deep in the archives and I’m losing all my control / I’m a digital detective, I’m a high-speed wreck / And I’m checking every comment just to see who’s on your neck / The battery is dying but the signal is strong / I’ve been waiting for a notification all day long / I’m falling for a ghost in a fiber-optic cable / Trying to be cool, but I’m totally unstable / You’re a viral sensation in my ordinary head / And I’m hanging on every single thing that you said / You sent a meme of a cat in a tiny little hat / And I analyzed the meaning for an hour after that / Are we flirting? Are we friends? Is it just a bit of fun? / Or am I just a casualty of what you’ve already done? / I’m pacing back and forth on my carpet in the heat / It’s a twenty-first-century psychological war / Is it real if I can’t touch your hand? / Or am I just building houses in the digital sand? / I'M JUST A FONT ON YOUR SCREEN! / Update the status... / Refresh the page... / I’m just a lonely girl in a digital age...