THIS SHIT’S GOT TO GO [Intro — spoken] Everybody told you: “Make it on your own.” Who laid the road? Who hauled the stone? [Verse 1] You didn’t lay the water pipe. You didn’t grow the grain. Somebody kept the lights alive While you slept through the rain. A thousand hands behind your meal, A thousand names unknown. Then they sell you “self-made”— Like you did it all alone. Draw a border through the river. Tell the smoke to stay outside. Put a price on cooperation. Make us fight to stay alive. Everybody chasing safety While the same ground falls away. We can learn to live together— Or keep digging our own graves. [Hook — call and response] This shit’s got to go! (We can’t make it alone!) This shit’s got to go! (No one does it on their own!) Same world! Same water! Where the fuck we gonna go? We need each other— This shit’s got to go! [Verse 2] Watch what gets rewarded. Watch what gets excused. Mock a kid for being gentle— Teach him whom to bruise. Hear a name become an insult. Hear the dinner table cheer. Before he knows his neighbors, He’s been taught who he should fear. Then we point at what he learned Like he brought it from the womb. Hang a poster preaching kindness. Leave the threat inside the room. If the rules still pay for taking, If the rent still eats the wage, Change the face behind the podium— Same lock. Same cage. [Hook — call and response] This shit’s got to go! (We can’t make it alone!) This shit’s got to go! (No one does it on their own!) Same world! Same water! Where the fuck we gonna go? We need each other— This shit’s got to go! [Breakdown — clipped, building] What does honesty cost? What does cruelty earn? Who gets paid to lie? What do children learn? You want different behavior? Give it somewhere else to grow. Keep feeding the conditions— Watch the same damn cycle go. [Bridge — rising] Make a meal you don’t have to earn. Make room to fail. Make room to learn. Give kids proof that help will come. Give them a future they won’t run from. We depend on people We will never meet. So why’s “every man for himself” Still the lie we all repeat? [Final hook — full crowd] This shit’s got to go! (We can’t make it alone!) This shit’s got to go! (No one does it on their own!) Change what gets rewarded! Change the seeds we sow! We need each other— This shit’s got to go! [Outro — return to the opening pulse] Same fear. Same hunger. Same boot holding you down. Keep the same conditions— Watch it all come back around. Another kid. Another home. Another mouth repeats— [Loop directly into intro] Everybody told you: “Make it on your own.”
