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· Jun 8, 2026
Morning News Ballad
The Same Old River
A Ballad of the Daily News
The Same Old River
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A Ballad of the Daily News
0:00
Gather 'round and listen close, I've got a tale to tell
0:06
Of rising prices at the pump and the ringing of a bell
0:12
The Federal Reserve is meeting, with a worried, heavy hand
0:18
Whispering of interest rates to cool a fevered land
0:25
Your mortgage and your market loans, they hold them in their sway
0:31
To tame the beast of inflation for another passing day
0:37
On Capitol Hill the gavels fall on tables made of oak
0:43
A house divided by a line, a promise nearly broke
0:50
They're arguing a spending bill, a shutdown's drawing near
0:56
And fill the air with empty words of fury and of fear
1:02
The left hand fights the right hand, and the center cannot hold
1:08
It's a story that I've heard before, a story centuries old
1:15
Oh, the ink is new upon the page, the headlines flash and gleam
1:21
But it's the same old river flowing, just a slightly different stream
1:27
The struggle for the power, and the struggle for the gold
1:34
The same old human story, brave and tired, young and old
1:40
Out west where futures are designed in towers made of glass
1:46
They've built a thinking engine from silicon and brass
1:52
This new AI can paint and write, it learns from all we do
1:59
And folks ask if it's progress, or a nightmare coming true
2:05
They talk of jobs and ethics, what is real and what is fake
2:11
Another tool of wonder, and another heart to break
2:17
And the wires hum with whispers from a land across the sea
2:24
Where cannons roar and mothers weep for what will never be
2:30
And every distant tremor sends a shiver to our shore
2:36
A reminder we're all connected, by commerce and by war
2:42
Oh, the ink is new upon the page, the headlines flash and gleam
2:49
But it's the same old river flowing, just a slightly different stream
2:55
The struggle for the power, and the struggle for the gold
3:01
The same old human story, brave and tired, young and old
