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My eyes - slowly rise from a shut state |
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Clearly an open and shut case |
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Imprisoned - by the Syndicate |
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Microchips implanted in my wrist I get |
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Branded mugshot scan it along with a handprint |
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And the biometric tracking is mandit- |
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-ory where my story begins |
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Just another prisoner whose making amends |
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The cell doors open |
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Everyone exits their cells in a uniform motion |
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But none of us move until the guard has spoken |
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Cause a broken jaw ain't a pleasant notion |
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"Single file to the chow hall" |
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And our cold titanium stalls become walls (door shutting) |
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Gravity shackles engage |
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Between my thin wrists and I shift my legs |
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Shuffle past the med ward |
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Where the med board is hard at work with their record |
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Sedate the inmates and make peace |
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So strayed seeds and crazies one day cease |
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To miscalibrate the state's needs |
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By doing just whatever they pleased |
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You gotta follow every law to the letter |
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Or find yourself in prison sitting with men who refuse doing better |
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"A new privacy application is making waves in the news again |
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After another wave of arrests have brought down at least 35 |
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People in six states related to online privacy and neutrality" |
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I'm fresh to my con-clique - |
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A conclave of convicts who wronged this |
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System devoid of all conflict upon which |
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Speaking out gets you jailed with a promptness |
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Speech is a crime defined by the law now |
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Incorrect speech incarcerate long now |
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Used to be the way to the convey your freedom |
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Now it's just a way to display your demons |
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Fuck police |
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Beat fellow citizens up on the streets |
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The ones they swore to protect from elites |
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But now fight their battles with batons and beat |
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Anyone who doesnt conform to the "norm" |
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Established by the branches of a government born |
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From a document draft that ensured our survival |
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But instead it destroyed all our rights to rival |
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Because the corrupt found a way to stop it |
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No one pure of soul finds their way into politics |
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So all this voting is represented |
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By representatives who were bad to begin with |
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Then the promise of money became true |
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Every vulture took a piece of the loot |
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Now all the people at the bottom they got nothing to do |
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Except watch as their world slowly fades to blue |
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...but it wasn't always like this |
