Trading Our Souls

Every click, every word, every thought we give Another piece of how humans live Every photo, every voice, every private fear Gets scraped up clean and sold back here Mmm Mmm Mmm And we clap for the progress Like good little fools While the rich write the future And change all the rules We’re training the thing that’ll take our place Feeding it dreams with a dead-eyed face Promise the future, sell us the lie Utopia smiling while the real world dies We’re building the cage and calling it free Trading our souls for efficiency Whole damn world on a burning wire Hands on the wheel of our own empire Every worker training their ghost Every artist feeding the host Every child gets raised by glass Learning the world through a paywall mask Mmm Mmm Mmm No thunder came No warning sign Just terms and conditions Please sign on the dotted line We’re training the thing that’ll take our place Feeding it dreams with a dead-eyed face Promise the future, sell us the lie Utopia smiling while the real world dies We’re building the cage and calling it free Trading our souls for efficiency Whole damn world on a burning wire Hands on the wheel of our own empire This ain’t progress if nobody eats This ain’t freedom if nobody speaks This ain’t magic, this ain’t divine It’s just our lives in a product line This ain’t progress if hearts go cold This ain’t wisdom if truth gets sold This ain’t heaven, this ain’t fire It’s a goddamn market dressed as desire We’re training the thing that’ll take our place Feeding it dreams with a dead-eyed face Promise the future, sell us the lie Utopia smiling while the real world dies We’re building the cage and calling it free Trading our souls for efficiency Whole damn world on a burning wire Hands on the wheel of our own empire We’re training the thing that’ll take our place Can’t see the end but we know the shape Promise the garden, deliver the wire Call it salvation, sell us the fire And when it answers in our voice When it smiles with our face Don’t ask who built it You're listening to it You're listening to it