My friends are scattered throughout times and places
To stay in touch, we relied on corporations
They buy us and sell us and charge us
To use the networks that we created
Baby photos, old friends and vegan recipes lost to the wind
Nothing in this world is free
You work for them
They own your memories, soon to be
Building crypto economies bigger than any country
Damn
Think about that sh#t, it’s f#cked up
You don’t even own your hot takes
All this ephemeral communication is trash
I’m a poet why the f#ck I need a Facebook page
I’m not a free speech absolutist
Just not a fan of economists, cops and white supremacists
The center cannot hold
That’s because
Todays centrists would have been railroad tycoons
A hundred years ago
Bezos and Musk dance on the scorched earth
That’s why I channel Berkman’s dagger in every verse
I hope this one hits, for the prisons
The houseless and tomorrow’s gallows
And while you’re at it, read Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows
0s and 1s they blind my vision
I’m really with the sh#t
It’s obvious who’s just performing
I came into the world through the bullet holes in Guy Debord’s heart
My w9 says musician but that’s just how I start
Throat not yet slit so I sing this
They shoot the cameras
Leave no witness
No peace to keep
I’m blacklisted
There was never peace to begin with
Throat not yet slit so I sing this
They shoot the cameras
Leave no witness
No peace to keep
I’m blacklisted
There was never peace to begin with
There’s no peace to keep
No place to sleep
Algorithm runs mad
There’s no pace to keep
Tech billionaires wanna shut it down
History has taken hold you can’t stop it now
Artificial intelligence seeks to keep the peace
Neither predator or prey, I came
To defeat the beast
We are coming to burn the throne
And when we tear it down
You will discover
You cannot eat a crown
Or feed your brother
When his lips have been sealed
Or when he’s been put in a cell
Or simply disappeared
I don’t wanna eat the rich
Nor do I dream in guillotines
But every time I close my eyes
It’s harder and harder to dream
The horizon is smoke
And all the wealth in the world
In the world is morally broke
I’m just trying to live
Not trying to survive
And raise my kids to have a future
Where we all can thrive
Throat not yet slit so I sing this
They shoot the cameras to leave no witnesses
No peace to keep I’m black listed
There was never peace to begin with
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Sole & DJ Pain 1 Lyrics – Blacklisted