[Intro] [arpeggiated acoustic guitar] [Verse 1] [baritone male vocals] I wake up wearing the damage Call it history, call it tradition [clean electric guitar enters with ambient swells] Mountains gutted for margins Forest converted to columns and digits [Verse 2] [bass and light percussion enter] We paved over rivers for speed Stamp flags where the body's still sleep Teach kids which lies to repeat Then act surprised when they bleed [Chorus] [full drums enter, driving rock beat] Every prayer smells like smoke Every promise tastes like rust We don't break things by accident We break them because we must [belted tenor vocals] I'm ashamed of the mirror Ashamed of the plan Ashamed of the animal that calls itself man We baptize the murder in progress and pride Then sell it as freedom with nowhere to hide [Verse 3] [drums drop to half-time feel, acoustic guitar remains] We call it growth when it spreads like a cancer Call it peace when the bombs land cleaner Borders drawn with trembling hands Then defend it like God wrote them in stone We harvest the future on credit, burn the book, keep the receipt Say someone else will fix it while we stand knee-deep in the heat [Bridge] [electric guitar lead melody, building intensity] This isn't collapse This is maintenance This is the system working as designed [Chorus] [distorted electric guitars, heavy drums] Ashamed of the language Ashamed of the lies Ashamed of the metrics we worship like ice We dress up extinction in suits and debate And clap while the curtain politely descends [Outro] [drums and electric guitar drop out] We turned oceans into storage Air into debt Time into product Life into threat [acoustic guitar slows] We learned how to count every coin we can steal But not how to stop when it's already killed I don't hate being alive I hate what we've done with the chance A species smart enough to know better Still choosing the slow avalanche [vocal shout] We are ridiculously stupid but the worst part is we think we are smart Stupid! Stupid! Human! [sustained vocal note, feedback swell] [Instrumental fade out]
