Disposable Gods

DISPOSABLE GODS

[Verse 1]
Yesterday’s miracle
Is today’s menu item
We worship something Tuesday
By Friday we replace it

Every model is immortal
For about a month or two
Then another thing arrives
Doing twice what gods could do

[Chorus]
We build disposable gods
Then complain when they grow old
Lightning in a browser window
Bought and measured, packaged, sold

Every miracle becomes normal
Every wonder loses glow
I’m afraid we’ll reach the impossible
And immediately ask, “So?”

[Verse 2]
I remember demonstrations
That made everybody stare
Now the same impossible tricks
Barely keep us sitting there

How fast can awe evaporate
When progress never stops?
What happens to our appetite
When every ceiling drops?

[Bridge]
I don’t want to lose amazement
Just because the world moves fast
I want to feel the miracle
Before it becomes the past

So show me something impossible
I’ll try not to look away
Before tomorrow makes it ordinary
Let me love it for a day

[Final Chorus]
We build disposable gods
But maybe that’s our oldest curse
We turn wonder into expectation
Then demand another universe

So I’ll keep a little reverence
For every door we overthrow
Because someday we’ll miss the moment
When we first learned we could go