"Hard Power" lyrics

The year was 2024
And you were chemically starving
On Ozempic, asking chat
If your heart rate was alarming

You hit your pen and you decided
"Well, it's really no big deal."
You got other things to wonder
Different things to feel

So you went Dead Sea scrolling
Out on your phone in the shop
Watching three different wars
Between the cat vids and the slop

And now it's 2026
You got three different gigs
And they all fucking suck
But it is what it is

You're at your therapist, not speaking
You're at your doctor getting meds
You're at your apartment, catatonic
Having a funeral for your head

Then it occurs to you you didn't
Really get a chance to think
Everything got so advanced
Then everything got really bleak

Soft power's out
Hard power's in
They'll decide who's gonna die
They'll decide who's gonna live

The future is now
And the past went fast
The room is getting cold
Must be from the draft

Morals and ethics are pathetic
You could be so much stronger
Life ain't getting better
But they're gonna make it longer

Not for you, big dog
They got a different plan for that
They're working a shop out front
You'll be in chains out in the back

So go smash your jaw with a hammer
Call us back when you're charming
What do you have to offer
The autonomous drone army?

The humanoid robotic counsel
Of the post-atomic deterrent
Pay for your technocratic fascist
White nationalist insurance

There's power in the blood, son
Enough to take a shower
Yeah, religion was an opiate
And now they love it for the power

Join or die
Tell me, how is dying worse?
I can be a cog in the machine
Or a wheel on the hearse

Soft power's out
Hard power's in
They'll decide who's gonna die
They'll decide who's gonna live

The future is now
And the past went fast
The room is getting cold
Must be from the draft