Swim Instructor

Written in direct response to A USAID malaria expert who spent years saving lives in developing countries was fired by DOGE. She now teaches children to swim at a community pool.. The lyrics weave in verified details — 30,000+ federal workers terminated by DOGE; Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency; $2 trillion promised, ~$200 billion actually saved. Majik delivers the report through country, letting the data hit as hard as the beat. Lines like "She had a lanyard and a laptop and a government ID" anchor the track in specifics that generic coverage misses. The mood — heartbreak, resilience, bittersweet dignity — reflects the emotional reality behind the numbers. Every Majik's Studio news track exists to make you feel the story, not just read it.

[verse 1] She had a lanyard and a laptop and a government ID A corner desk in Arlington with photos from Nairobi Fourteen years of fieldwork, every district, every ward She tracked the way mosquitoes moved and where the fever hit the hardest She'd seen the clinic tents go up along the Niger River bend She'd held the hands of mothers who were losing once again But the email came on Tuesday, wasn't even signed by name Just a subject line that read "Position Eliminated" — no thanks, no explanation given [chorus] I used to save the world Now I'm at the deep end of the YMCA Teaching someone's daughter how to float I used to save the world But the world don't need me anymore they say So I hold my whistle and I watch the water I used to save the world [verse 2] She packed her boxes on a Wednesday, took the photos off the wall The one from Mozambique where every kid survived the fall Outbreak season, oh-four, they lost the funding twice But she found a way to stretch the nets across a thousand village sites Her badge stopped working at the door before she made it to the lot Security said sorry ma'am, that clearance is no longer what you've got She drove home on the parkway past the monuments she served And wondered how a woman gives her life and don't get one departing word [chorus] I used to save the world Now I'm at the deep end of the YMCA Teaching someone's daughter how to float I used to save the world But the world don't need me anymore they say So I hold my whistle and I watch the water I used to save the world [verse 3] The community pool posted up a part-time morning shift Sixteen dollars and an hour, you don't need a specialist But she showed up with a resume that nobody could read Because the line that said "prevented ninety thousand deaths" don't fit a lifeguard's C.V. She teaches tiny backstroke arms to kick against the tide She tells them breathe and trust the water, it'll hold you if you try And the kids don't know her story, they just call her Mrs. Claire They don't know she spent a decade keeping death out of the air [chorus] I used to save the world Now I'm at the deep end of the YMCA Teaching someone's daughter how to float I used to save the world But the world don't need me anymore they say So I hold my whistle and I watch the water I used to save the world [bridge] Two trillion dollars, that's what they had promised they would save But a deposition said two hundred billion, and most of that was already waste The courts said it was likely that the law had just been broken But the law don't give you back the years The law don't heal what's open [verse 4] Now they're calling people back, they say we need you after all But Claire already sold the house and moved to something small She's got a one-bedroom in Silver Spring, a parking spot, a pool And a six-year-old named Amara who just learned the breaststroke rules She got the voicemail on a Sunday, said your desk is waiting still She looked out at the water and she felt a kind of chill Because you can't just fire the people and then whistle them back home Some of us found something here — we built this on our own [chorus] I used to save the world Now I'm at the deep end of the YMCA Teaching someone's daughter how to float I used to save the world But the world don't need me anymore they say So I hold my whistle and I watch the water I used to save the world [outro] Different kind of saving now Different kind of saving I used to save the world But I'm still saving someone