[Intro – spoken, very slow, controlled] You speak in our name. You plan our lives. You decide our limits. There’s just one problem. No one consented. [Verse 1] Closed rooms, open futures— drawn without our voice. You call it coordination, we call it stolen choice. You publish frameworks, targets, lines to obey. But authority isn’t printed on a badge you display. You weren’t elected by truth. You weren’t chosen by those who pay. You assumed the right— and called assumption “mandate”. [Pre-Chorus] Power doesn’t come from confidence. It comes from consent. And where consent is missing, authority is pretend. [Chorus – slow, heavy, declarative] No consent, no authority. No voice, no claim. You manage lives you never lived and call it “the greater good” again. No consent, no authority. Say it slow, say it clear: Legitimacy ends where permission disappears. [Verse 2] You warn of chaos if we choose, of danger if we refuse. You frame obedience as maturity and dissent as abuse. You don’t debate— you normalize. You don’t persuade— you pre-decide. Rules dressed as ethics, control dressed as care. But morality imposed isn’t moral—it’s power wearing prayer. [Pre-Chorus 2] You don’t need force when fear does the work. You don’t need votes when exits don’t exist. [Chorus – variation] No consent, no authority. No crown, no throne. Influence without permission is just power alone. No consent, no authority. No silence can amend: What was never granted cannot rule in the end. [Bridge – spoken, stripped, chilling] This is not rebellion. This is not rage. This is the baseline of ethics older than any institution: No one governs another by default. [Break – silence / low drone] [Final Chorus – deeper, slower] No consent, no authority. The math is plain. If power fears this question, it was never sane. Ask it once— systems crack. Ask it out loud— they never answer back. [Outro – spoken, calm, final] Power that avoids the question knows the answer. And authority that cannot be questioned was never legitimate.
