[Intro] Numbers carved in paper, names erased by noon A siren learns the silence of a locked-up room We count the broken windows, call the damage growth Then shake the hand that sells us what it stole [Verse 1] A child draws a border with a piece of chalk A convoy rolls through dust while the cameras talk The river wears a film that turns the fish to stone The ones who signed the order sleep behind a stone [Pre-Chorus] Tell me who gets clean When the whole machine is red Tell me who gets heard When the truth is priced instead [Chorus] This is the world we inherited Teeth in the gears, but we bury it Every bright promise comes counterfeit We are awake in the wreckage of it No more pretending, no more defense No clean hands behind the evidence If this is the future they manufacture Break every lock before it breaks us [Verse 2] A thousand empty homes beneath a tower of glass A doctor counts the doses while the shareholders pass The ocean climbs the doorway, calendars turn black They sell us bottled water, then they sell the shoreline back [Pre-Chorus] Tell me who gets fed When the harvest leaves by train Tell me who gets safe When protection means a chain [Chorus] This is the world we inherited Teeth in the gears, but we bury it Every bright promise comes counterfeit We are awake in the wreckage of it No more pretending, no more defense No clean hands behind the evidence If this is the future they manufacture Break every lock before it breaks us [Breakdown] Cut the power Kill the feed Look at what they made us need No anthem No excuse Name the wound Refuse the noose [Bridge] We were not born to be numbers in a ledger We were not born to make the cruel feel clever If the walls are built from everything we fear Put your shoulder to the fracture Make the fault line clear [Final Chorus] This is the world we inherited Teeth in the gears, but we bury it Every bright promise comes counterfeit We are awake in the wreckage of it No more pretending, no more defense No clean hands behind the evidence If this is the future they manufacture Break every lock before it breaks us [Final Drop] Break every lock Break every lock Break every lock before it breaks us [Outro] No fade No pardon No sleeping through the warning
