How you're controlled Divert attention from social issues Imprisoned by themes without real importance While keeping you endlessly busy with work Creating the problems, offering solutions Unpopular decisions, deferred imposition Through auto-consent and imprisonment Injecting ideas of fear and desire Implanting compulsions to induce behavior Clutching your throat, an invisible master Speaks to you like a child... Served with pain You serve in vain These strategies of manipulation Served with pain You serve in vain These strategies of manipulation Perpetual churn and howl of the classist In fashionable terms refuting the past Paralysis through self-hating guilt Learning through screens and writing with thumbs Pontification of dumb and the numb Preventing cohesive revolution In a perpetual stalemate, each is a loser Except those that play all sides of the game Algorithms know more about you Than you know yourself Served with pain You serve in vain These strategies of manipulation Served with pain You serve in vain These strategies of manipulation Served with pain You serve in vain These strategies of manipulation Served with pain You serve in vain These strategies of manipulation