[VERSE 1] Pulled the trigger for another wage, Corporate dog in a steel cage. They bought my soul one bullet at a time, Contract killer, rented crime. Night City burned beneath my boots, Paid by executives in armored suits. Then one bad call, one sniper's grin— Flatlined before the check rolled in. Thought I'd paid my final debt, Thought the Reaper crashed the net. Then black wings dropped out of the rain... Militech knew my name. [CHORUS] CHAIN THE DRA-GOON! Bolt me down with chrome and hate! CHAIN THE DRA-GOON! Turn a dead man into corporate hate! CHAIN THE DRA-GOON! Feed me lies while I sleep in a dream! Wake me up— LET THE WHOLE WORLD SCREAM! [VERSE 2] They kept my brain in a glass tomb, Built me a sky, erased the gloom. Digital sun, digital wife, Braindance rendered somebody else's life. Every kiss was lines of code. Every laugh a scripted mode. Every memory, factory-made. Every promise... ...never stayed. Static tears the blue apart, Alarm clock chewing through my heart. Some suit just signed another war— They're knocking on my door. [CHORUS] CHAIN THE DRA-GOON! Crack the coffin, fuel the flame! CHAIN THE DRA-GOON! Nobody cares what's left to save! CHAIN THE DRA-GOON! Hear the reactor start to breathe! Wake me up— POINT ME AT THE ENEMY! [BREAKDOWN] [Bass drops. Drums become mechanical. Vocals half-screamed, half-spoken.] They lock me in. Seal the hatch. Neural sync. Weapons hot. Heartbeat... Detected. Conscience... Rejected. The chassis whispers— KILL THEM ALL. I scream back— NOT TODAY. It laughs. YOU ALWAYS DO… YOU’RE A DRA-GOON TODAY [VERSE 3] Fifty tons of armored rage, Every battlefield a stage. Tank rounds bounce across my skin, Guess who's always walking in? Buildings shake beneath my feet. Concrete melts beneath the heat. Children crying through the smoke... God... Don't make me choke. Target painted. Throttle wide. Something human... Still inside. Every mission strips away Another piece of my humanity. [FINAL CHORUS] CHAIN THE DRA-GOON! Corporate saints with butcher hands! CHAIN THE DRA-GOON! Built a full conversion monster to defend their plans! CHAIN THE DRA-GOON! Every war just feeds the machine! Wake me up— AND TELL ME I'M STILL ME! CHAIN THE DRA-GOON! Your profits running through my veins! CHAIN THE DRA-GOON! Stock prices written out in brains! CHAIN THE DRA-GOON! You'll never own what's left inside! YOU CAN BUY MY BODY— YOU DON'T GET MY MIND! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE!!!!! CHAIN THE DRA-GOON! CHAIN ME! [OUTRO] (Everything drops except bass and kick drum.) When the city starts to burn... They activate me. When negotiations fail... They switch me on. When witnesses need disappearing... They unleash me. When they need someone to blame... They point at me. (Guitars explode back in.) I died once. You kept the receipt. Now every time you wake me— YOU WAKE YOUR OWN NIGHTMARE.
