Seize The Robber Barons Track

Kemaktun's Singles Volume 1

Verse 1
They built their towers on our bones,
And wrote our hunger into loans,
They sold us dreams we couldn’t keep,
Then bought the rights to when we sleep.
They smile while bleeding every hand,
And call it progress when they plan,
They own the sky, they own the ground,
And laugh when we can’t turn it ‘round.

Chorus
Wake up before it’s gone,
They’re stealing what we’ve sown,
The kings wear modern crowns,
And call your cage your home.

Verse 2
They hide their greed behind the screens,
And feed you lies to paint it clean,
They call their theft “the market’s way,”
While truth gets priced and thrown away.
They tax your hope, they rent your tears,
They turn your dreams to their frontiers,
And while you fight to just survive,
They bet your loss and call it life.

Chorus
Wake up before it’s gone,
They’re stealing what we’ve sown,
The kings wear modern crowns,
And call your cage your home.

Verse 3
They took the commons, took the air,
They bought the law to make it fair,
They silenced protest, bought the press,
And told the world it’s for the best.
They learned from tyrants long ago,
That slow decay’s the safest blow,
Not chains of steel, but chains of debt,
They own your past, your future’s set.

Chorus
Wake up before it’s gone,
They’re stealing what we’ve sown,
The kings wear modern crowns,
And call your cage your home.

Bridge
From railroads once to data lines,
The robber barons just redesigned,
They trade your faith for numbers’ gain,
And sell your freedom back in chains.
Your worth’s been carved into their stone,
Your voice reduced to what you own,
But every age that’s bowed its head,
Has risen loud when it’s been bled.

Chorus
Wake up before it’s gone,
They’re stealing what we’ve sown,
The kings wear modern crowns,
And call your cage your home.

Outro
So raise your voice, your heart, your hands,
And take back what they stole again,
The truth is not a thing they own,
It breathes in us, it stands alone.
The tide will turn when we decide,
That fear no longer will divide,
The world is ours, it always was,
So seize the thieves who sold our cause.