Efficiency Dividend

[Intro: Mechanical percussion]
Faster!
Excellent!
Now do twice as much.

[Verse 1]
I built a better process
Cut the effort down by half
Thought I'd earned a little freedom
Had to stop myself from laughing

Every hour I recovered
Found a hundred ways to fill
Every brilliant new invention
Made another expectation real

[Pre-Chorus: Rhythms accelerate]
Automate it!
Delegate it!
Celebrate it!
Now accelerate it!

[Chorus: Soaring syncopated melody]
I made the world go faster
Now it wants me faster still
Every minute that I rescue
Is another one to fill
Oh, the efficiency dividend
Never seems to pay me back
I keep multiplying output
While the hours stay intact

[Verse 2]
I remember when a project
Could consume an afternoon
Now I finish ten by lunchtime
And I'm somehow overdue

[Bridge: Glitching vocal layers]
Ten times faster!
Twenty times more!
Who's the winner?
What's the score?

[Final Chorus: Layered harmonies]
I made the world go faster
And I'm proud of what I've done
But the point of all this progress
Can't be working till I'm numb

[Outro: Printer jams]
Efficiency achieved.
New target assigned.