ASHES OF ORDER

they sell control and call it life smile in chains, dressed up as light you pay in fear, you pay in time and call it normal every night no one speaks, but all comply truth gets buried when it asks why iron lungs in filtered air breathing something never there no name, no voice, no exit door just “carry on” and nothing more you move in lines you never chose while everything around you closes hold the line, break inside same old system, same disguise we are the echo, stripped and worn of everything that got torn we obey / we consume / we disappear no one is free here they sell control and call it life smile in chains, dressed up as light you pay in fear, you pay in time and call it normal every night hold the line, break inside no escape, no place to hide we are the echo, we are the cost of everything that got lost