[Intro – low, spoken over ticking percussion] Yeah... forty-eight years old, calluses on my hands Two kids, a wife who still believes in the plan They said progress... now I'm just another deleted man [Verse 1 – rapid-fire, claustrophobic flow] Clock in at six, been doing this twenty years straight Factory floor, sweat and steel, I know every crate Boss called me in, said "Sorry bro, it's automated" New AI arm doing my job faster, never tired, never late Twenty years of loyalty got vaporized in a update Now I'm staring at the severance like it's fucking loose change Bills stacking, kids asking "Dad when we eating again?" Wife in the bathroom crying, trying to hide the pain [Pre-Hook – tense strings rising] They want me coding Python, training models, prompt engineering I fix machines with my hands, not this silicon pretending I'm obsolete, a fossil in real time The future don't need me, it just needs my fucking login [Chorus – anthemic, wider, emotional lift with orchestral stabs] REPLACED! Thrown in the garbage like code REPLACED! Watch my life fucking erode From provider to parasite, sleeping in the cold AI took my hands, now it's coming for my soul REPLACED! Family starving in the dark REPLACED! Sleeping in my car in the Walmart lot Dreams of my babies growing up without their pops This is the future they sold us — now watch it rot [Verse 2 – faster, aggressive, internal rhymes] Applications in the hundreds, every single one the same "Required: AI experience, prompt fluency, LLM trained" I'm fifty next year, arthritis in my frame They want some twenty-two-year-old with no kids and no shame Rent due, lights off, eviction notice on the frame Wife left with the kids, couldn't watch the slow flame Now I'm bagging groceries for chump change, still not enough Boss is a fucking algorithm, no mercy, no bluff [Bridge – half-time, raw and desperate, minimal production] I sleep on concrete, piss in the alley by the train Coughing up blood in the morning, pneumonia in my veins Used to build the world, now the world threw me away For shiny fucking robots that never feel hunger or pain Kids call on Sunday, "Daddy when you coming home?" I lie through my teeth while I'm freezing, all alone This ain't progress, this is genocide in slow motion Class warfare dressed up in innovation [Verse 3 – explosive, relentless, maximum intensity] Shaking in the shelter, fever got me seeing demons Dreaming of the days I had purpose and meaning Now I'm just a statistic, another displaced human AI billionaires laughing while my body is ruined No healthcare, no hope, just waiting on the end Liver failing from the cheap shit I drink to pretend That I ain't a ghost walking, already fucking dead A man replaced by code, left to rot on the streets instead [Final Chorus – biggest, layered doubles, explosive] REPLACED! From the factory to the grave REPLACED! No one fucking saved me They cheered for the future while my children went hungry Now I'm another dead dad that the system calls "unlucky" REPLACED! This the dark side they hide REPLACED! While the CEOs multiply I lost everything so their stock price could rise Fuck your artificial future — this is real life! [Outro – slowing, vinyl grit, fading piano and reverse effects] Yeah... they said it'd free us All it did was bury us One by one... Replaced.
