Illy - Numbers Game lyrics
[Illy - Numbers Game lyrics]
Trading floors exploded, down arrows
Red numbers
People losing everything, convinced that
Their world was ending
No small thanks to a lotta chest thumping
And paranoia, but thats a sensitive topic
Cause on one hand homie lost his
Home, on the other hand
The ones who caused it go
In and post record profit's
That was just the tip of
It, the icebergs vanished
Species vanished daily
Countries literally drowning
Under the threat of an ecosystem failing
To cope, gave us enough rope
We were swaying by the days end
Big business dollars bought slaves, blind
Eyes, coastlines, goldmines of ambivalence
Digging our own graves then
No lie, oil fell from the sky
Suffocated oceans blackened
Eyes of the world on a room of conspirators
Not one knew what happened
Not one stood and hacked it, noone took blame
Global crisis justified for private
Gain a world insane
(that's what it is to be a slave every city
In every building sit's another like me
Watching, waiting, watching, waiting
They pushed us, tested our indifference
Just to see how far they could milk it
And it's funny cause the ones
With the money didn't care
Long as it was the one without who felt it
Ha, they felt it alright
For lifetimes across all borders
Smooth talkers, cold blooded, exploit it
Export it my generation
Was caught between caring more than
All that came before us
And a self induced apathy
That almost tore us
Destroyed us and brought us
To the brink, then we stopped to think
It's crazy in age where
We could drop bombs via satellite we were too
Blind to the forces at play there
To stand up against their
Willpower, to quick to cower in
The face of conglomerates
And as the world hung there in the balance
Enough said enough is enough about time
We put a stop to this
Straw by straw till they had a haystack
Only took one more
To break the cycle, united took to the
Streets, to the halls of power
To the governments doors
Every city in every building
Sit's another like me
Watching, waiting, watching, waiting
Every city in every building
Sit's another like me
Watching, waiting, watching, waiting
It's all a numbers game
But all the corporate wallet flashes
Of financial strength couldn't counter the
Power of the masses
When it came to the crunch
When the lust and greed
Threatened everything we love
Divided they had us but fuck that man
Push came to shove
And we beat the fucking cowards back
And under a shining sun
Showed we could silence their influence
But try as they might
They couldn't silence love
Can't silence love
Let history shown how hard that war was won
So we may never know how
Close we'd really come
How close we'd really come
Quite an experience to live in fear isn't it?
That's what it is to be a slave
Red numbers
People losing everything, convinced that
Their world was ending
No small thanks to a lotta chest thumping
And paranoia, but thats a sensitive topic
Cause on one hand homie lost his
Home, on the other hand
The ones who caused it go
In and post record profit's
That was just the tip of
It, the icebergs vanished
Species vanished daily
Countries literally drowning
Under the threat of an ecosystem failing
To cope, gave us enough rope
We were swaying by the days end
Big business dollars bought slaves, blind
Eyes, coastlines, goldmines of ambivalence
Digging our own graves then
No lie, oil fell from the sky
Suffocated oceans blackened
Eyes of the world on a room of conspirators
Not one knew what happened
Not one stood and hacked it, noone took blame
Global crisis justified for private
Gain a world insane
(that's what it is to be a slave every city
In every building sit's another like me
Watching, waiting, watching, waiting
They pushed us, tested our indifference
Just to see how far they could milk it
And it's funny cause the ones
With the money didn't care
Long as it was the one without who felt it
Ha, they felt it alright
For lifetimes across all borders
Smooth talkers, cold blooded, exploit it
Export it my generation
Was caught between caring more than
All that came before us
And a self induced apathy
That almost tore us
Destroyed us and brought us
To the brink, then we stopped to think
It's crazy in age where
We could drop bombs via satellite we were too
Blind to the forces at play there
To stand up against their
Willpower, to quick to cower in
The face of conglomerates
And as the world hung there in the balance
Enough said enough is enough about time
We put a stop to this
Straw by straw till they had a haystack
Only took one more
To break the cycle, united took to the
Streets, to the halls of power
To the governments doors
Every city in every building
Sit's another like me
Watching, waiting, watching, waiting
Every city in every building
Sit's another like me
Watching, waiting, watching, waiting
It's all a numbers game
But all the corporate wallet flashes
Of financial strength couldn't counter the
Power of the masses
When it came to the crunch
When the lust and greed
Threatened everything we love
Divided they had us but fuck that man
Push came to shove
And we beat the fucking cowards back
And under a shining sun
Showed we could silence their influence
But try as they might
They couldn't silence love
Can't silence love
Let history shown how hard that war was won
So we may never know how
Close we'd really come
How close we'd really come
Quite an experience to live in fear isn't it?
That's what it is to be a slave