Corporate USA

Lyrics

Verse 1
The corporations write the laws with golden pens while we just fade away,
The working dead still shuffle in—there's nothing left to say.
The companies bought the courts, own the halls where justice used to stand,
And we're just ghosts in cubicles throughout this broken land.

Pre-Chorus 1
We scream! Ignored! They refuse to hear!
We're drowning slow in corporate fear!

Chorus 1
I held her hand through doctor's tears, my heart was breaking too,
Called me in to desks far away—which I could remotely do.
She died alone that Wednesday while I typed in my cube,
Corporate USA, you've left us black and bruised.

Verse 2
The corporations pile the work to mountains high while wages stay the same,
Like circus animals performing, broken by their game.
Metrics climb, the pressure builds, the system optimized for our death,
While record profits tower high as we gasp our final breath.

Pre-Chorus 2
Broken! Fallen! We can't go on!
But bosses don't care—treating us as pawns!

Chorus 2
Working three jobs to keep the lights on, sixty hours every week.
Our children barely know our faces, too destroyed to speak.
The CEOs made millions more from our exhausted souls,
Corporate USA, swallowing us whole.

Bridge
This isn't ancient history—this is right here, right now!
The urgency screams no way out! This we cannot allow!
The climate burns, our bodies break, our children have no chance.
While boardrooms count their quarterly wins, we're trapped in their sick dance!
Feeling powerless, the corporations made sure we believe,
There's no hope left—with nothing left for us to achieve!

Verse 3
Why fight a cruel system that was created to take us down?
No hope to vote, march or scream our throats raw against this crown!
The corporations crushed the unions, bought the press, made solidarity obscene.
Now we're just the isolated parts in their grinding machine!

Pre-Chorus 3
Treated as nothing! No one! Used and thrown!
Now we are dying quietly and alone!

Chorus 3
Trying to stop organizing—trying to make us scared,
Corporations try to drown us in their hell, to break us from feeling spared.
To bring sorrow to silence us, to change anger to numb,
Corporate USA, look what you've become—
What you made us become!
What you made US become!
(What you made us become!)

Outro
This moment called for courage when we had nothing left to give,
The urgency is drowning us—now too tired to live.
No hope left, just exhaustion, no strength, feeling only pain,
Corporate USA, have you won this sick game?...
Will you do this again and again?...
To forget us in this acid rain?...
just... forgotten... in acid rain...