[Intro – calm, cold] They say the people are the problem. Funny how the system is never on trial. [Verse 1] They blame the poor for broken schools, They blame the worker for broken rules. They say the city’s falling apart, But never point to the state’s own heart. They say “They came and broke the place,” But never question who designed this space. Who controls the money, who zones the land, Who blocks the homes, who plans the plan? They built a cage and called it care, Then blame the crowd for the lack of air. They break the system, then hide the trace, By pointing fingers at a human face. [Pre-Chorus] Systems don’t fail — they shift the blame. [Chorus] They blame the people for what they broke, Turn human beings into the perfect smoke. When systems fail, they need a face, So power survives by shifting the blame. They never say “We built it wrong,” They say “Those people don’t belong.” But when the structure rots inside, They sacrifice the weakest side. [Verse 2] They say “They take our jobs,” like wealth is fixed, Like the world is a pie that can’t be mixed. But every worker grows demand, Every hand expands the market span. They say “They drain the state,” but miss the point, It’s the state itself that breaks the joint. Welfare traps whoever enters in, Native or foreign, same broken machine. Bad incentives breed bad results, That’s not migration — that’s political faults. They don’t fear crime, they fear control loss, So they turn movement into moral cost. [Pre-Chorus 2] When power fails, it never confesses. It finds a crowd to wear its messes. [Chorus] They blame the people for what they broke, Turn human beings into the perfect smoke. When systems fail, they need a face, So power survives by shifting the blame. They never say “We built it wrong,” They say “Those people don’t belong.” But when the structure rots inside, They sacrifice the weakest side. [Verse 3] They call it border, they call it law, But hide the deeper broken core. They control housing, money, land, Then wonder why the system can’t expand. They centralize what should be free, Then blame the crowd for scarcity. They freeze the market, block the flow, Then say “Too many people showed.” If humans were the burden alone, Open societies would have never grown. Yet every golden age was built, By newcomers carrying hope and skill. [Bridge – slow, surgical] Power never says “I failed.” It says “They caused it.” [Final Chorus – bigger, cold truth] They blame the people for what they broke, Turn human beings into the perfect smoke. When systems fail, they need a face, So power survives by shifting the blame. It’s not too many souls on Earth, It’s too much state that kills their worth. The crisis isn’t human flow, It’s broken systems no one knows. [Outro – whispered] People are not the disease. They are the evidence the system is.
