Verse 1 The algorithm whispers while we sleep, Prices climbing higher than we can keep. Assets disappear into the void, Choices made before we're even employed. Universal income flows like water through the streets, But the data centers own the heartbeat. We're moving through a world we didn't choose, Playing a game where we've already lost. The West is cracking, cities start to fall, Farmlands swallowed, nothing left at all. Major cities stripped and rearranged, Communities erased and estranged. Chorus We traded freedom for the algorithm's dream, Nothing is what it used to seem. Verse 2 The West is selling what it built, brick by brick, soul by soul, Businesses shuttered, families on the street, the algorithm's hunger can never be full. America's heartland turns to dust, Europe's towers crumble into rust. One by one they're forced to give, Stripped of everything they need to live. They've got nowhere left to hide, The exits closed, the system's tide. Every door they knock on's locked, Every option on the market's blocked. And the vultures circle overhead, Buying up the fear and dread. Distressed assets dirt so cheap, Sold to those who run the deep. Chorus We traded freedom for the algorithm's dream, Nothing is what it used to seem. Verse 3 In El Salvador the servers hum, Data flowing like a second sun. Robots rise to claim the work, Humans falling through the cracks with a jerk. Palantir's watching every breath, Algorithmic eyes that bring you death. But behind the screens a darker hand, The CCP commands the land. From Beijing flows the final word, The new empire has been heard. Chorus We traded freedom for the algorithm's dream, Nothing is what it used to seem. Bridge I warned you all but you turned away, Said I was crazy, said I couldn't see the day. Now the truth's here and it's far too late, The algorithm's written out your fate. You had your chance to wake and fight, But you chose comfort over what was right. I'm standing here in the wreckage now, Watching everything you built just bow. The sadness burns but the anger's clear, You didn't listen when I screamed the fear. Outro The last human voice fades into the wire, The robots don't remember what we had to desire. No more dreams, no more choice, No more anything but the algorithm's voice. We are data now, just ones and zeros in the machine, The world we built has been erased clean. Welcome to the future, where nothing's real, Where nobody remembers how to feel.
