[Verse 1] Ever wonder where we would be, under shadows of their choice? If we never bowed to the screen, never echoed someone else's voice? Look back a year, five years, a decade, all the lies that we let slide What if every law that they signed was a line we had denied? [Pre-Chorus] How did we let them write our fate? How did the warnings come too late? [Chorus] Take me down to the halls where they barter our names Where they auction off the future in fluorescent flames Every promise is a contract that we never could read Every headline is a weapon for the power they feed [Verse 2] Let’s start before the screens were god, think back to what we knew When a handshake carried the weight of truth, not a sponsored point of view If we made a different choice in fear, where would we stand today? If we stayed out in the streets that night, would they still own what we say? [Pre-Chorus] How did we sleep through all their crimes? How did we lose these borrowed times? [Chorus] Take me down to the halls where they barter our names Where they auction off the future in fluorescent flames Every promise is a contract that we never could read Every headline is a weapon for the power they feed [Bridge] If we didn’t act so quietly, if we didn’t look away Would the towers of authority still be standing here today? If we turned off all their static, if we listened to the street Would the faces on the billboards still decide what we repeat? [Chorus] Take me down to the halls where they barter our names Where they auction off the future in fluorescent flames Every promise is a contract that we never could read Every headline is a weapon for the power they feed [Outro] Ever wonder where we would be, if we tore the script apart? If the questions that we carry lit a fire in every heart?
