(Verse 1) Scrolling through the feed of a tailored outrage machine Algorithms feeding on the spaces in between We click the link, we take the bait, we buy the latest thing While the architects of apathy smile through the despair The classroom is a factory that manufactures debt Standardized compliance is the best that you can get They teach you how to memorize, but never how to think Then push you over the edge and watch you slowly sink. (Chorus) The gears are turning backward, the engine’s blowing smoke The pillars of society are a fucking joke But don’t look for a savior to fix the things that are broke The ones who have the power to ease the public's pain Are the very same investors who are profiting again. Yeah, they're making billions leaving it broke. (Verse 2) The Capitol is crowded with the puppets and the cash A theater of division through the infrastructure crash They trade on inside info while they argue on the floor And manufacture crises just to open up the door The hospital is locked behind a corporate-plated wall A ledger sheet decides if you can stand or if you fall And the drug cartel prescribes a lifetime on the pill They don't make a single penny if they actually cure the ill. (Chorus) The gears are turning backward, the engine’s blowing smoke The pillars of society are a fucking joke But don’t look for a savior to fix the things that are broke The ones who have the power to ease the public's pain Are the very same investors who are profiting again. Yeah, they're making billions leaving it broke. (Bridge) They monetize the loneliness, they subsidize the greed They ration out the medicine that dying people need Why would they ever fix a system that they own from top to floor? When a broken world keeps paying them to promise something more? (Guitar Solo / Instrumental Break) (Chorus) The gears are turning backward, the engine’s blowing smoke The pillars of society are a fucking joke But don’t look for a savior to fix the things that are broke The ones who have the power to ease the public's pain Are the very same investors who are profiting again. Yeah, they're making billions leaving it broke. (Outro) They keep it broken. It’s working perfectly for them. Keep us scrolling, keep us sick, keep us voting for the dicks. They keep it broken. (Fade out on a heavy, driving beat)
