[Verse 1] Everything is fucking sponsored Every surface has a price They'll sell water back in bottles Sell your hours back as life Buy a better face on credit Buy convenience, buy escape Spend the money that you earned Losing most of every day We're all tired, we're all shopping We're all staring at our phones Paying rent to someone richer For the privilege of going home I participate completely I'm not standing clean outside I buy shit I don't need too At least I'm honest when I lie [Chorus] It's good for business Whatever it costs us Keep the numbers moving up Someone somewhere calls it progress I get paid enough to live So I can live enough to work And if that sounds fucking miserable Apparently that's what I'm worth [Verse 2] I spent a month inside a hospital Another two away from work Came back drugged and barely functional With a line still in my arm Every night I pushed antibiotics Through a tube into my heart Still in pain from almost dying But I showed up for my part Then I needed one night off For a scan that couldn't wait And suddenly my livelihood Was something they could take Nothing clarifies your value Quite as cleanly as the threat: You can nearly die on schedule Just don't inconvenience us with it [Chorus] It's good for business Whatever it costs us Keep the numbers moving up Someone somewhere calls it progress I get paid enough to live So I can live enough to work And if my body can't keep pace They'll find another one that works [Verse 3] I want a child so badly Sometimes wanting feels like grief I can picture who I'd be to them More clearly than I picture me And then I look around this country At what we'd hand them when they're born A bill attached to being sick A price attached to being warm I'd teach them kindness isn't weakness That no god is keeping score That nobody deserves less Just because somebody has more Then send them out into a culture That will teach the opposite And wonder why the thought of motherhood Feels terrifying mixed with it [Bridge] They put God into the speeches Put a flag behind the sale Put freedom on the packaging And lock necessity behind a paywall I don't believe there's someone watching I don't believe this is a test I think people built these systems People keep them as they are Which is worse, because it means None of this was handed down We made a world that works this way And keep pretending it just happened [Breakdown] And yes, I own the phone Yes, I order things online Yes, my retirement depends On markets I despise I go to work I cash the check I buy the shit I pay the rent Where the fuck else would I live? [Final Chorus] It's good for business Whatever it costs us There's always blood beneath the numbers If you bother looking down I get paid enough to live So I can live enough to work They can sell me back my hours They can tell me what they're worth But don't ask me to be grateful Don't ask me to call this free I know I'm part of what disgusts me That's part of what disgusts me
