[Verse 1] The CEO says the system’s broken, says the math don’t lie Families falling backward while the numbers climb They nod and say they feel it, say they hear the pain Then sell us growth again like it’s a brand new name The CEO frames it as a choice between slow and fast Between the future and the weight of the past But every road they offer runs the same old way More power moved upward, less for us to say [Pre-Chorus] Corporations sell it as common sense But it's a handoff [Chorus] That’s the hat trick Make the CEO look like “better” Make the voter look like “worse” Call it progress, call it clever While they move authority off the Earth Growth without accountability Is not growth, it’s control You don’t fix their rigged economy By selling corporate policy and calling it democracy. [Verse 2] What did your platforms build that we can actually keep? Did they lower the rent or help us sleep? Did they raise our wages, slow the bleed? No, you just sorted our lives into data sheets You didn’t feed the hungry, didn’t heal the sick You didn’t give us leverage, you just scaled the click You made access purchasable, attention a gate Turned working people into a lead to generate [Pre-Chorus] They call that delivery We call it extraction [Chorus] That’s the hat trick Make the CEO look like “better” Make the voter look like “worse” Call it progress, call it clever While they move authority off the Earth Growth without accountability Is not growth, it’s control You don’t fix a rigged economy By selling pieces of the public soul [Bridge] They say we need a bigger, smarter coalition But listen close to what that really means It means a tent where donors pick the limits And voters learn to clap from the cheap seats They say democracy is messy, slow, emotional So let the platforms steer the future clean That’s not saving us from strongmen It is training us to live without a voice [Break] Not regulation versus growth Not left versus right It’s who outranks the public When the decisions are made at night [Final Chorus] That’s the hat trick Make the Corporation look “better” Make Democracy look “worse” Call it progress, call it clever While they move authority off the Earth Growth without accountability Is not growth, it is control They rigged the economy Lobbied against the people Corporatize America Eliminate the vote [Outro] Once you see it You can’t unsee it They didn’t grow an economy They shrank the voter inside it
