Lyrics

Your body is a corporation
Paper rights on a paper nation
From the cradle to the coffin they’ve been tracking your creation
Born with a number, signed into control
Filed in a system where they barter your soul
And when you’re dead they call you a corpse
Because your whole damn life was a company of course

Every move you make is business on a screen
Licenses and permits for things that used to be free

You ain’t living, you’re operating
A human being they keep translating
Into stocks and bonds and silent deals
While the Statue of Liberty watches the wheel
Not freedom, just permission slips
A sailor’s leave from the captain’s lips
And you never knew you were being sold
On a New York ticker in a world so cold

They say “that’s my business” and “none of yours”
But the truth is everything is commerce and law
Maritime codes on the land you walk
Admiralty rules in the courtroom talk
Your marriage needs a license
Your home needs the state
Even loving someone needs the government’s gate
'Cause corporations ask permission to act
And your body’s treated like a contract

When liberty replaces freedom’s name
You’re not a citizen, you’re playing in their game

You ain’t living, you’re operating
A human being they keep translating
Into stocks and bonds and silent deals
While the Statue of Liberty watches the wheel
Not freedom, just permission slips
A sailor’s leave from the captain’s lips
And you never knew you were being sold
On a New York ticker in a world so cold

Wake up to the system, wake up to the lie
You were branded at birth with a barcode sky
Your strawman walks so the real you can’t
Break out of the chains of the legal chant
But a soul can rise where a contract fails
And a voice gets loud when the truth unveils

You ain’t living, you’re operating
A human being they keep translating
But freedom lives beyond the claim
Beyond the permits, beyond the chain
No sailor’s leave, no corporate code
Just the living man walking his own road
And the markets fall when the people see
You were never meant to be property