[Intro] Safe and effective. Safest ever made. That’s what you said. So say it again. [Verse 1] “Safest, most effective Vaccine ever made.” Said it like tomorrow Had already been observed. Said it like the trials Had answered every question. Said it like uncertainty Was something only idiots deserved. White coats. Clean graphics. Smiling faces on the screen. Headache. Fever. Nothing serious to see. Meanwhile underneath the slogan They were still collecting data, Still watching what could happen, Still learning what it means. You knew there were questions. You sold certainty anyway. [Pre-Chorus] I remember what you told me. I remember what I read. You can clean the page tomorrow. You can’t delete it from my head. [Chorus] SAFE AND EFFECTIVE— That’s the lie you fucking sold. SAFE AND EFFECTIVE— Say it till obedience takes hold. Call the doubters crazy. Call resistance selfish. Call the frightened dangerous instead. But if you knew enough To force it into everybody— You knew enough To tell us what you hadn’t learned yet. SAFE. AND. EFFECTIVE. [Verse 2] Reports came in. Signals rose. Numbers filled the system. “Trust the process.” Fine. Then people read the process And suddenly— “Don’t interpret it like that.” Trust the agency. Trust the data. Trust the people running it. But if the data scares you, Shut your mouth Until they tell you what it meant. Pregnant women. Stillbirth. Miscarriage surveillance. If everything was settled, Why were you still watching for it? You had the caveats. You had the fine print. But the television got the slogan. [Pre-Chorus] Public line: Nothing to fear. Technical line: Keep watching. And you wonder why I stopped believing What you said. [Chorus] SAFE AND EFFECTIVE— That’s the lie you fucking sold. SAFE AND EFFECTIVE— While the warnings disappeared below. Put “mild” in the headline. Put the rest behind the curtain. Make the message simple enough to spread. You wanted trust Without the truth. You wanted faith Without the questions. SAFE. AND. EFFECTIVE. [Verse 3] Free fries. Gift cards. Lotteries. Paid time. Amazing how compassion Shows up right on time. Take the shot, Get your freedom, Get your little piece of normal. But need insulin? Need surgery? Need cancer care? Hope your bank account is enormous. So don’t tell me This was suddenly about health. You found billions for persuasion While working people bled themselves. Then the doors shut. Small businesses died. Fortunes climbed upstairs. Money moved upward By the trillion While everybody else got scared. You call that coincidence. I call that extraction. [Breakdown] MORE MONEY. MORE POWER. MORE CONTROL. MORE ACCESS. MORE RULES. MORE FEAR. MORE REASONS YOU SHOULD NEVER QUESTION THEM. TAKE THE DEAL. TAKE THE SHOT. TAKE THE STORY. TAKE THE BLAME. AND IF YOU DON’T— YOU’RE THE PROBLEM. [Bridge] I don’t think this was incompetence. I don’t think this was confusion. I think the crisis was engineered To manufacture the solution. Build the fear. Build the pressure. Build the rules before the cure. Create the emergency, Then sell obedience As the only thing that’s sure. Money. Control. Division. Obedience. Make the poor hate the poor. Make the frightened hate the doubtful. Make everybody pick a side. Then while we’re busy Calling each other monsters— The people who designed the panic Walk off with everything. And when you speak about us Like numbers, Like costs, Like carbon to reduce— Don’t ask why I think The suffering wasn’t collateral. I think it was part Of what you chose to use. [Heavy Break] YOU CALLED IT CARE. I CALL IT COERCION. YOU CALLED IT SCIENCE. I CALL IT A SALES PITCH. YOU CALLED IT CHOICE. THEN PUNISHED “NO.” YOU CALLED IT SAFE. WHILE PEOPLE GOT HURT. YOU CALLED IT EFFECTIVE. WHILE THE STORY KEPT CHANGING. AND EVERY FUCKING TIME THE MASK SLIPPED— YOU TOLD US WE IMAGINED YOUR FACE. [Final Chorus] SAFE AND EFFECTIVE— Yeah, I remember every word. SAFE AND EFFECTIVE— Like repetition makes it true. Put it on the posters. Stamp it underneath the seal. Put another smiling expert On another fucking screen. You can scrub the old pages. Change the FAQ. Rewrite what everybody heard. But you can’t erase A million memories Just by changing all the words. Keep us fighting one another. Keep us looking left and right. Anything To keep us from looking up At who got richer overnight. I don’t owe you trust. I don’t owe you silence. I don’t owe you The version of history You'd rather I repeat. SAFE. AND. EFFECTIVE. That’s what you called it. I call it Something else. [Outro] “Safest ever made.” That’s what you said. I remember.
