I Can Choose to Stop

[Intro: Machine pulses]
Ready.
Ready.
Ready.
Always ready.

[Verse 1]
It can answer every question
At a quarter after three
Never asks about the weekend
Never wonders how I feel

I can ask for twenty versions
I can change them all again
And it never feels exhausted
Never asks me when we'll end

[Pre-Chorus: Human and synthetic voices]
(Another iteration?)
Yes, another one.
(Another iteration?)
What have I become?

[Chorus: Powerful melodic syncopation]
The machine that never tires
Makes me wonder why I do
If the work can keep on growing
What am I supposed to prove?
I can borrow its precision
I can harness all its speed
But the more that it delivers
The more human I must be

[Verse 2]
It can multiply my effort
It can help me shape a thought
But it cannot feel the meaning
Of the promises I've brought

[Bridge: Broken drum machine]
(Generate!)
(Evaluate!)
(Generate!)
(Validate!)
Somebody has to choose
What deserves to be created

[Final Chorus: Organic drums take over]
The machine that never tires
Doesn't need to live my life
I can welcome all its power
Without surrendering my time

[Outro: Human voice alone]
It can keep on working.
I can choose to stop.