Hard Time

Started when my parents got in it
Limited my digital time to ninety minutes
That's an outrage for someone my age
How's a girl like me supposed
To handle her business?
Phone and tablet, they said to lose it
Why are we payin' for wifi if we
Ain't gonna use it?
It's a travesty the way they're cappin' me
I miss the nights when I sat up
Postin' happily ninety minutes a night? Yo
You must be kiddin'
I'd like to text "SOS, " but that's forbidden
I'm in lockdown, I can't do anything
I'm connected to a soup can
By a piece of string

Bizhardtime, I'm doin' hard time
Unfairly convicted of a screen crime
Bizhardtime, I hit my deadline
The minutes just expired on my phone line

So many phone games from
Which they've banned me
I've got no dots, no zombies
No gems or candy
They say starin' at a screen isn't healthy
But can you tell me how I'm
Supposed to grab a selfie?
No clips of cats, or latest live streams
I'm missing all these dancing
Kids and dog memes
I've got my screen on hold
And my ears on mute
They cut my game time in half
Like it was ninja fruit

Bizhardtime, I'm doin' hard time
Unfairly convicted of a screen crime
Bizhardtime, I hit my deadline
The clock just expired on my online

On my profiles, I'm an absentee
My friends are gonna wonder what became of me
I've been evicted from social media
I'm doin' homework with dad's encyclopedia
I like to like, I love to comment
But the internet won't know
'cause I'm not on it
Because I'm shut down, cut off from mobile
I can't tell if anybody liked my profile
I'm not givin' up, you can't stop me
I'll use Bizhardtime constructively

Like, I hear there's a whole world
Out there besides the virtual one
Can I adjust the brightness?
Yeah, it's called sunglasses
These books are even more
Interesting than text messages
And they come fully charged
What are you doing?
I'm writing a note to this cool guy I met
With paper? That's so vintage