Trading floors exploded, down arrows, red numbers//
People losing everything, convinced that their world was ending, no small thanks to a lotta chest thumping//
And paranoia, but thats a sensitive topic//
Cause on one hand homie lost his home, on the other hand, the ones who caused it go in and post record profits//
That was just the tip of it, the icebergs vanished, species vanished daily//
Countries literally drowning, under the threat of an ecosystem failing//
To cope, gave us enough rope, we were swaying by the days end//
Big business dollars bought slaves, blind eyes, coastlines, goldmines of ambivalence, digging our own graves then//
No lie, oil fell from the sky, suffocated oceans blackened//
Eyes of the world on a room of conspirators, not one knew what happened//
Not one stood and hacked it, noone took blame//
Global crisis justified for private gain a world insane (that's what it is to be a slave//
Every city//
In every building//
Sits another like me//
Watching, waiting, watching, waiting//
They pushed us, tested our indifference, just to see how far they could milk it//
And its funny cause the ones with the money didn't care long as it was the one without who felt it//
Ha, they felt it alright, for lifetimes across all borders//
Smooth talkers, cold blooded, exploit it, export it//
My generation, was caught between caring more than all that came before us//
And a self induced apathy that almost tore us, destroyed us and brought us//
To the brink, then we stopped to think, its crazy in age where//
We could drop bombs via satellite we were too blind to the forces at play there, to stand up against their//
Willpower, to quick to cower in the face of conglomerates//
And as the world hung there in the balance, enough said enough is enough about time we put a stop to this//
Straw by straw till they had a haystack, only took one more//
To break the cycle, united took to the streets, to the halls of power, to the governments doors//
Every city//
In every building//
Sits another like me//
Watching, waiting, watching, waiting//
Every city//
In every building//
Sits another like me//
Watching, waiting, watching, waiting//
Its all a numbers game, but all the corporate wallet flashes//
Of financial strength couldn't counter the power of the masses//
When it came to the crunch, when the lust and greed threatened everything we lovee//
Divided they had us but fuck that man, push came to shove//
And we beat the fucking cowards back, and under a shining sun//
Showed we could silence their influence, but try as they might they couldn't silence love//
Cant silence love, let history shown how hard that war was won//
So we may never know how close we'd really come, how close we'd really come//
"Quite an experience to live in fear isn't it?
Thats what it is to be a slave"