We counted cameras, checked for tags lifting whatever
Carried handguns to show security if they checked our pockets
We were like clockwork, committed to crime cuz often
Its what made us feel alive instead of something more robotic
But I digress
Cuz now that gun is my hand, my temple pulsing where it’s pressed
I commit crime just to keep my conscious intact
Take my beatings with the smile of a psyche that’s been cracked
I’m throwing punches at the cages of my social prison cell
Yanking out my life support demanding unplugged from this hell
But you’ve been tamed
Stripped of all your power so now all you do’s complain
Yeah it seems to me the only thing we ever do’s complain
The skies grow darker
And today like any day
Will be the last day of my life
At least if I have any say
But I digress, yes and the rest of you’ve been tamed
I can see it in the eyes of almost everybody’s face
Let all the moments blur together, forever to be forgotten
Like clockwork, the gears will never see their labors’ product
Like the onslaught of panic that collapses on my chest
Every building that we burn down lets them know their time is spent
We are like clockwork, committed to crime cuz often
It’s what makes us feel alive instead of something more robotic
But I’ll take my chances disgracing what they hold sacred
Just to spit it in the faces of the keepers of my cage
Who I detest
But I guess since all you do is take then you can take two to the chest
And if you got some shit to say
Then you can take two to the chest
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