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Lissin
· May 23, 2026
Morning News Ballad
This Morning's Verse
Same old story on a different stage
This Morning's Verse
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Same old story on a different stage
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The dawn came cold on Baltimore's shore
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A rumble heard, and then a mighty roar
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The Dali ship, a giant lost its wayAnd the steel bones of the Francis Scott Key Bridge gave way
0:10
Six souls were lost to the Patapsco's chill
0:13
Another titan built by human will
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Now lies in ruins 'neath the morning gray
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Just like the stories of a bygone day.
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Oh, the wind it blows, and the river it runs
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'Neath the fading moons and the rising suns
0:31
They're writing headlines on a digital page
0:34
But it's the same old story on a different stage
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Pride and ruin, power and its cost
0:41
Another treasure built, another treasure lost.
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In halls of marble, nine robed figures sit
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To judge the words the government thinks fit
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They talk of platforms, whispers, and of posts
0:55
Of digital town squares haunted by their ghosts
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From Missouri's plea to the Texas law
1:02
They draw the lines on what the world once saw
1:06
As free-flung speech, now filtered through a screen
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The oldest argument, a different scene.
1:13
Oh, the wind it blows, and the river it runs
1:16
'Neath the fading moons and the rising suns
1:20
They're writing headlines on a digital page
1:23
But it's the same old story on a different stage
1:27
Pride and ruin, power and its cost
1:30
Another treasure built, another treasure lost.
1:34
The wings of Boeing, once they owned the sky
1:37
Now hear the whispers as the stocks slip by
1:41
A door flies open on an outbound flight
1:44
And shakes a kingdom in the fading light
1:48
The CEO, Calhoun, he bows his head
1:51
Too many warnings left unread
1:55
A giant stumbles, built on skill and pride
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With nowhere left for it to run or hide.
2:02
A bridge of steel, a fortress in the air
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A web of words that everyone must share
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We build them higher, faster, and so proud
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Then watch them crumble back into the shroud
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I've seen it built with timber, stone, and bone
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I've seen the kings fall from a wobbly throne.
2:23
Oh, the wind it blows, and the river it runs
2:26
'Neath the fading moons and the rising suns
2:30
They're writing headlines on a digital page
2:33
But it's the same old story on a different stage
2:37
Pride and ruin, power and its cost
2:40
Another treasure built, another treasure lost.
