(Intro — Heavy, distorted guitar riff, building up with a ticking clock sound effect) Verse 1 Look at your screen, tell me what do you see? A perfectly tailored reality They feed you the outrage, they feed you the fright Dividing the left from the ghost of the right But behind the curtain, the balance sheet clears They've been planning this collapse for years and years Demographics falling, the pensions are dry So they engineered the sickness under a synthetic sky Pre-Chorus It's not a mistake, it's not a glitch in the code! They're paving the tracks for the new Silk Road! Who owns the future? Who holds the key? When the algorithms dictate what you're allowed to see! Chorus WAKE UP! It's a manufactured dawn! They're moving the pieces, you're just a pawn! BlackRock is buying the dirt that you tread While the AI empire is rewriting your head! They want you to own nothing and smile through the tears Prepare yourselves... for the next ten years! Verse 2 They build up the AI where the birth rates decline Replacing your hands with a copper design But who buys the product when the workers are gone? When the Universal Income is a trap you walk upon? Look to the East, look across the deep sea They're funding the markets where the consumers will be While you're locked in a cage of security cameras and wire They're setting the old world completely on fire! Pre-Chorus It's not a mistake, it's not a glitch in the code! They're paving the tracks for the new Silk Road! They control the machines, they control the line A digital prison by corporate design! Chorus WAKE UP! It's a manufactured dawn! They're moving the pieces, you're just a pawn! BlackRock is buying the dirt that you tread While the AI empire is rewriting your head! They want you to own nothing and smile through the tears Prepare yourselves... for the next ten years! Bridge (Music drops out, leaving just a throbbing, distorted bassline and a desperate, half-screamed vocal) To justify the police state, what do they need? They need the chaos! They need you to bleed! They take the techniques from the Middle East wars And bring the unrest right back to your doors! They weaponize division, they radicalize the feed It's an algorithmic harvest for a corporatist greed! Can't you see the pattern?! Can't you see the chains?! They're poisoning the network inside our brains! (Guitar Solo — Fast, chaotic, filled with high-pitched feedback and screeching bends) Chorus WAKE UP! It's a manufactured dawn! They're moving the pieces, you're just a pawn! BlackRock is buying the dirt that you tread While the AI empire is rewriting your head! They want you to own nothing and smile through the tears Prepare yourselves... for the next ten years! Outro (Tempo slows down, guitars get heavier and more monolithic) It's a warning to the living... Before the lights go black. They've started the countdown. There's no turning back. Open your eyes. Open your eyes... before they shut them for you. (Final, ringing guitar chord cuts abruptly into static)
