Futures (feat. Knock Over City & TRAGWAG)

Second hand's ticking counts the many failures of mankind

Tired eyes open on another day begrudgingly

Futures bought and sold, sentenced to a lesser world

Consequence passed on, while the culprits decompose

They never cared

Historically, the poor have been a valuable resource to the rich and corrupt

Like Earth itself, society can no longer support wealth-hoarding narcissists

Firmly affixed inside a system meant to grind me down

Just comfortable enough to keep giving up moral ground

Treating politics like a weather system

Unavoidable, unstoppable outcome

Your ideology is how you see the world

So don't tell me it's not fucking personal

We just won't care

Oligarchy stacking the deck every chance they get, we are not led by peers

If given no recourse, the scales will balance themselves by force

By whose hands will we bleed?

Hands up! Turn around!

Kneel down, put your face on the ground!

You will be put down if you hesitate!

It won't be my fault, I'll just say I was doing my job

The perks of living in this police state

I close my eyes so I won't see

As I take the bait predictably

Will I ever bite the hand that feeds

While the other steals from those in need

We close our eyes so we won't see

As we take the bait predictably

We will never bite the hand that feeds

while a million others bleed

If we don't try, we all die