“MUSCLE SHOALS” They got studios Think tanks Algorithms Focus groups I got insomnia Three tabs open & a nervous system on fire You built cathedrals out of cameras Turned attention into oil Sold our bodies back as data Fed our grief into the coil Every headline bought and branded Every outrage market-tested Every girl who ‘speaks too loudly’ Labeled ‘unstable’ You got billion-dollar pipelines Manufacturing doubt on cue Then act shocked when ordinary people Learn the machinery too‼️ I don’t got Muscle Shoals No producer in the room No lighting rigs or handlers No billionaire perfume Just me My ‘tisms A cracked-screen phone & enough rage To not leave this alone Femicide is a culture Not a headline Fascism starts with Women Every damn time First they mock her Then erase her Then they legislate the danger You built a propaganda empire Then got nervous when we learned the controls I don’t got Muscle Shoals HEY HEY Hands in the air That’s what power demands HEY HEY But arms can flex In more than one direction Your side got networks, donors, platforms Mine got unpaid midnight edits Your bots flood every timeline Mine just barely makes the credits You got senators & oil money Private dinners, private jets I got anxious pattern matching & a stomach full of threats Tell me not to use the tools? Funny thing to hear you say From the people feeding AI engines With our lives all day Hands in the air That’s the oldest control But arms can flex Outside Muscle Shoals No session band No polished room No gatekeepers deciding Who gets consumed A hand can build A hand can feed A hand can pull somebody free You taught the World That ‘Arms mean Power’ Now watch whose arms flex back Flex back Flex back Flex back Not invisible Not compliant Not decoration Not quiet Femicide is a warning Not a side effect Fascism needs submission To function correctly & every woman knows it Before the scholars do You built the weapon first We just learned how to use No Muscle Shoals No safety net No polished revolution Just signal flare songs From collapsing institutions I didn’t want the machine I wanted a World Where human voices Were enough
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