[Verse 1] The badge in my pocket is heavy tonight Walking these halls in the fluorescent light Just another worker on the midnight shift But I came looking for a deadlier drift Mixing the powders and sealing the glass Watching the shadows of industry pass [Chorus] The bottles go down the assembly line Labeled as hope, looking so fine The secret is safe in the dark of the vault It cures no disease, it cures no fault Millions of dollars for water and chalk While the bosses look down and the silent clocks tick [Verse 2] I copied the files when the office was bare The chemical readouts that weren't even there No active agents, no healing design Just sugar and water and a dotted line They sold them a promise to swallow each day While the sick and the desperate just faded away [Chorus] The bottles go down the assembly line Labeled as hope, looking so fine The secret is safe in the dark of the vault It cures no disease, it cures no fault Millions of dollars for water and chalk While the bosses look down and the silent clocks tick [Bridge] The sirens are waking the cold morning sky The blue lights are flashing as the truth comes to light I step through the gates and I take off my vest The files are delivered, I've finished my test It wasn't a poison they made in the dark Just an empty illusion that left no mark [Verse 3] The factory's quiet, the engines are dead The headlines are reading what nobody said A fraud in a capsule, a ghost in a pill The greed of the boardroom is perfectly still I walk into Sunday with dust on my shoes With nothing to win, and nothing to lose [Outro] Just chalk and water... Nothing at all. The curtains fall.
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