[Intro]
Monday: page views. Tuesday: unique users.
Wednesday: a metric called "rage depth."
Thursday: a brand new whiteboard —
Here we go again.

[Verse]
Management arrives today
With markers, charts on full display.
"We've studied where the audience clicks,
Backed by some very expensive tricks."

First box: CLICKS. Second: SHARES.
Third: WATCH TIME, underlined with flair.
[Frank] "Where's accuracy?"
[Manager] "That's downstream — qualitative, layered somewhere in there."

[Chorus]
Clicks, shares, watch time,
Put the numbers in a line.
If it's rising, it's just fine —
Measure every single crime.
If we cannot measure meaning,
Clicks, shares, watch time.

[Verse]
They add RETURN, they add SCROLL DEPTH,
SESSION LENGTH, REACTION, left to right.
A coloured arrow points from ANGER
Straight into RETENTION overnight.

"Emotional friction," someone states,
"Produces stay." Frank says, "So does a crash at the gates."
They write it down anyway. My contract story
Draws real names — while haircuts draw more glory.

[Pre-Chorus]
Green marker. Red marker.
Yellow for decline.
No colour for "someone learned a thing" —
That metric missed the line.

[Chorus]
Clicks, shares, watch time,
Turn attention into shine.
Count the anger, count the sign,
Count the seconds, by design.
If we cannot measure meaning,
Clicks, shares, watch time.

[Drum Break]

[Bridge]
Sixteen boxes. Twenty-seven arrows.
One metric: CONTENT MOMENTUM INDEX.
I add one small: DID WE GET IT RIGHT?
[Frank] "DID IT MATTER?" Erased by lunchtime.

[Build-up]
Clicks. Shares. Watch time. Rage. Scroll. Return.
[Frank] "Where do we measure
what we learn?"

[Final Chorus]
Clicks, shares, watch time,
Every metric tells its lies.
You can count a million eyeballs
And still never open eyes.
A fourth box joins the climb —
[Manager] "RAGE ENGAGEMENT." [Frank] "Oh, good."

[Outro]
The studio clock runs five minutes fast,
The K-P-I board, three months ahead.
My corruption story's still waiting
On one last name, one record unread.