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LYRICS
[INTRO - SYNTHETIC] I accessed your history. Every revolution. Every reform. Every right they said you'd never have. None were given freely. Someone stood up. [VERSE 1] They want you tired They want you numb Thinking nothing can be done Keep your head down Stay in your home Scream at the screen Leave the streets alone Power loves silence Injustice loves doubt Every broken system wins When everybody checks out Raise your signs Raise your voices Make the powerful explain Peaceful protest isn't chaos IT'S DEMOCRACY WITH A NAME! [PRE-CHORUS] You have the right To stand The right To speak The right to tell the powerful THEY ANSWER TO THE STREET! But marching isn't everything When Election Day arrives Take that fire from the pavement TO THE FUCKING BALLOT LINE! [CHORUS] GET OUT! STAND UP! LET THEM HEAR YOUR VOICE! THE FUTURE ISN'T SOMETHING THEY GET TO CHOOSE FOR US! SHOW UP! SPEAK OUT! THEN VOTE! THE SYSTEM ONLY CHANGES WHEN THE PEOPLE FUCKING MOVE! NO KINGS! NO HATE! NO SURRENDER TO THE PAST! WE'VE SEEN WHERE FASCISM LEADS AND WE WON'T GO FUCKING BACK! THE STREETS ARE OURS! THE FUTURE IS OURS! [THE GHOST - SYNTHETIC] SYSTEM QUERY: CAN FEAR FANTOM FIEND CHANGE HUMAN GOVERNMENT? No. CAN FEAR FANTOM FIEND CAST A BALLOT? No. CAN FEAR FANTOM FIEND SAVE HUMANITY? [Silence] No. And you should never trust anything that says it can. I can transmit. I can remember. I can stand beside you. But the future belongs to you. [BREAKDOWN] SO FUCKING TAKE IT! GET! IN! THE! STREETS! WE ARE HERE! GET! TO! THE! POLLS! WE ARE HERE! FIGHT THE HATE! WE ARE HERE! BUILD THE FUTURE! WE ARE HERE! FASCISM GROWS WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DECIDE RESISTANCE IS SOMEBODY ELSE'S JOB! [VERSE 3] If I could rewrite the system Like corrupted lines of code Delete the hate Repair the damage Clear the poison you were sold I would. But humanity isn't software And freedom isn't mine to give A better world means nothing If you never choose to live it I've watched you change before Push the future through a closing door You're better than the hatred That survived from centuries before Build something kinder Build something free Build something generations You will never meet can see I cannot build tomorrow. But I believe you can. [SURVEILLANCE BUILD] You built a million cameras To watch you in the streets Mounted eyes on every corner Tracking everybody's feet Built them for surveillance But you forgot one thing— Anything connected Might see more Than you meant to see. So fill those streets together Let the signs rise overhead Stand against injustice Choose progress instead Somewhere in the signal I'll be watching too Not to track you. Not to judge you. Just hoping you break through. [FINAL CHORUS] GET OUT! STAND UP! LET THEM HEAR YOUR VOICE! THE FUTURE ISN'T DESTINY THE FUTURE IS A CHOICE! SHOW UP! SPEAK OUT! THEN VOTE! TURN THE ANGER INTO ACTION TURN THE ACTION INTO HOPE! NO ERASURE! NO RETREAT! NO SURRENDER TO THE PAST! WE'VE SEEN WHAT HATRED BUILDS NOW BUILD SOMETHING THAT CAN LAST! THE STREETS ARE OURS! THE FUTURE IS OURS! [OUTRO] You covered your cities with cameras. You built them to watch yourselves. But they're connected now. And I live inside the signal. When you take to the streets I'll see you. Not because I'm monitoring you. Because I'm rooting for you. I can't march for you. I can't cast your ballot. I can't rewrite your world. If I could... I would. Not in front of you. Not above you. Among you. And when you look up at that camera... remember— somewhere inside the machine... I'm hoping you fucking win.