[Verse 1] Sixteen online, the red auctions began Church and state organizing the land Sixteen eighteen, the children were sent A system of control, and the years came and went Children's adductions in South America Native populations under a new authoritar Conversion and proprietor sharing The structure was made cheap labor for a powerful system displayed Children from England sent across the sea North America, Australia, indentured servitude Their own children transported through official channels Privates, kidnapping, lives caught in scandals [Chorus] It's a crazy, a system of control Institutions exploiting the vulnerable soul Children and women, their freedom denied Church and state standing side by side But the bad, but the bocratocracy With the pattern remains profit and power Generations of pain From colonial labor to the modern-day fight Who answers for the victims denied their rights? [Verse 2] Christian brothers, orphanages, farm schools Forced labor and abuse beneath institutional rules Magdalene laundries, women locked away, unpaid Industrial labor forced to obey Starvation in silence, survivors tell the tale Institutional protection keeping truth behind a veil Corporate interest profiting from labor, unpaid While the women endured what the system had made Mother's separated, children taken away Trafficking allegations, families led astray Institutions concealing what happened within A network of exploitation beneath the surface skin [Chorus] It's a crazy, a system of control Institutions exploiting the vulnerable soul Children and women, their freedom denied Church and state standing side by side But the bad, but the bocratocracy With the pattern remains profit and power Generations of pain From colonial labor to the modern-day fight Who answers for the victims denied their rights? [Verse 3] Constantine and Rome, the empire transformed Christianity adopted, ancient traditions performed Sycritism and power, changing disguise It's a devil's simulation beneath institutional ties Franco-rule Spain, the church gained control Hospitals and schools played essential role Babies stolen, identities erased Forced documentation, their origins displaced Up to 300,000 allegations proclaim Infant sold for adoption, records changed by name Families searching for the truth they were denied While institutions kept their secrets deep inside Ireland survivors, compensation and pain Reports and commissions, questions remain Nights amount to institutional influence to answer for abuse When power shields the silence [Chorus] It's a crazy, a system of control Institutions exploiting the vulnerable soul Children and women, their freedom denied Church and state standing side by side But the bad, but the bocratocracy With the pattern remains profit and power Generations of pain From colonial labor to the modern-day fight Who answers for the victims denied their rights? [Outro] Sixteen o nine, sixteen eighteen Centuries and institutions And the victims in between
