03 / Societal Ignition

Monuments

Monuments

You were born inside a building and you'll die inside one too
Every building in between is billing you for moving through
They give you a number at the door and a deficit when you're done
And somewhere in the corridor they tell you that you've won
But the hallway's never-ending and the exits all got fees
And the ceiling's only overhead if you're on your hands and knees
And the architect is laughing and the landlord's overseas
And the building's never wrong it just houses the disease

The building's never wrong and the tenants keep on paying
The building's never wrong and the foundation keeps decaying
They built it and they own it and the rent is never weighing
On the ones who hold the deed while the ones inside are praying

They got you horizontal in a hospital the doc is philosophical
About the prognosis and the cost of this the profit's astronomical
They wrote the script like hollywood the actors in the surgical
They bill you for the miracle and call the debt liturgical
The patient is a patient man sedated and symmetrical
He waits until he pays the toll statistical methodical
The margins stay fanatical while patients stay cadaveral
They call it care but carefully the bill becomes your burial

The building's never wrong and the tenants keep on paying
The building's never wrong and the foundation keeps decaying
They built it and they own it and the rent is never weighing
On the ones who hold the deed while the ones inside are praying

The loan precedes the learning and the interest is the lesson
Every lecture is a leveraged investment in regression
The degree is a receipt and the graduation's an obsession
Summa cum laude summa cum debt summa cum depression
They taught you how to earn but never how to learn the difference
Between the ceremony and the service and the sentencing
The cap and gown's a costume for a future they're dispensing
And the meter's always running but the education's never ending

They mine your mind and call the shaft a thriving digital community
You liked it so they bought it sold it back to you with impunity
The cloud is just another word for somebody else's ceiling
Your feed is free but you're the feed and they are doing the feeding
They don't sell you what you want they manufacture the desire
The terms of service service them the terms of you expire
They optimize the outrage because anger is the mineral
Your data is the product and your privacy's the funeral

The building's never wrong and the tenants keep on paying
The building's never wrong and the foundation keeps decaying
They built it and they own it and the rent is never weighing
On the ones who hold the deed while the ones inside are praying

The court is now in session and the stock is through the roof
The sentence was reduced but tell me what they really reduced
He did his time and time did him and there's the living proof
They call it correction but corrections never tell the truth
The land of the free is a franchise with a fee
The plea is always bargain but the price is never free
The CEO gets house arrest the penthouse and the view
The corner gets perpetual the cell and deja vu

They send the thoughts and prayers and the Predators to the same address
The eagle's on the dollar bill it never lands on foreign flesh
They put the stars up on the flag and put the stripes across the chest
Of every prisoner who couldn't buy his freedom nothing less
The defense rests but the budget never sleeps it just compounds
They sold the war and sold the ribbon sold the sight and sold the sound
The threat grows with the budget and the budget grows with the burial grounds
And freedom's just another product moving units by the round

The building's never wrong and the tenants keep on paying
The building's never wrong and the foundation keeps decaying
They built it and they own it and the rent is never weighing
On the ones who hold the deed while the ones inside are praying

Interest is the only thing they ever paid attention to
The foundation is a write-off and the fire is intentional
The preacher sells salvation with a prophet's net credential
The trickle-down was golden and the shower was torrential
The bailout is a lifeboat but the manifest is preferential
Your credit is a leash they let you choose the length sequential
The American dream auto-renews it's never consensual
The only way to cancel is to wake up that's the eventual
And when the body's done they'll bill the grave and call it revenue
And call the debt a life well saved and call the saved a revenue stream
That feeds the building's engine like it's always been the scheme
And the building's never wrong
And the building's never wrong

And if the building falls they'll build a bigger one

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