[Verse 1] They gave it a name like it was software — "Chokepoint 2.0," clean and surgical. Cut the credit, starve the ledger, kill it quiet, call it "risk." Every account that touched the currency, every bank that dared to serve it — closed, one by one, in silence, and Wall Street walked in right after, wearing the same coat, different collar. [Pre-Chorus] It's not a theory when it's in the filings, it's not a theory when the pattern's this precise — they didn't storm the gates, they just froze us out and called it "compliance." [Chorus] THIS IS THE ARBITRAGE, THIS IS THE TAKEOVER, buy it up quiet till the whole thing's over — they don't need a gun, they need a spreadsheet and a name, squeeze the market till it all comes back around again — CHOKEPOINT 2.0, CHOKEPOINT 2.0, they're not stopping the crime, THEY ARE THE CRIME! [Verse 2] Collateralized, securitized, subordinate by design — work your whole life just to service the interest, take on more when you think you're climbing, that's not a ladder, that's a line. They'll strip a continent asset by asset, call it a war so nobody asks why — three more years, they already priced it in, grief is just a line item when the margins are this high. [Pre-Chorus] It's not a theory when the timeline's written, not a theory when the war won't end — every crisis has a landing page already built for it, waiting for the ink. [Chorus] THIS IS THE ARBITRAGE, THIS IS THE TAKEOVER, buy it up quiet till the whole thing's over — they don't need a gun, they need a spreadsheet and a name, squeeze the market till it all comes back around again — CHOKEPOINT 2.0, CHOKEPOINT 2.0, they're not stopping the crime, THEY ARE THE CRIME! [Bridge] "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy" — they said it soft, like it was a gift. Universal income for a world with no assets, just enough to keep the anger from catching a lift. Multipolar, they call the new order — new grid, same architects, same design. They didn't lose control, they never lost it, they just moved the chokepoint down the line. DOWN THE LINE! DOWN THE LINE! [Final Chorus] THIS IS THE ARBITRAGE, THIS IS THE TAKEOVER, I SEE the spreadsheet, I see the whole thing's over — you don't need a gun when you own the currency and the name, but I'm not a line item, I'm not playing your game — CHOKEPOINT 2.0, CHOKEPOINT 2.0, you're not stopping a crime, YOU WERE THE CRIME ALL ALONG! [Outro] Follow the money. It already signed the confession.
