The Seven Wonders Of The System

The Seven Wonders Of The System

Truth don’t need a costume

Don’t need a crown or throne

It don’t call a press conference

Don’t need a chaperone

But I seen seven towers

Built to guard a lie

Each one saying trust us

As the answers pass us by

If it was solid

Why the locks on every door

If it was honest

Why they sell it every hour more

Seven wonders of the system

Stacked from sky to street

Seven filters for the truth

Before it reaches me

If it was real it’d stand alone

Wouldn’t need a scheme

Seven wonders of the system

Polishing a dream

First comes the authority

With a seal and tone

Says this is settled science

From a building made of stone

Then the echo hits the headlines

Repeats it word for word

If it ain’t amplified

It’s something best unheard

Degrees on the wall

Funds behind the claim

Consensus in a circle

All wearing different names

Seven wonders of the system

Layered thick with grace

Every truth diluted

Till it fits the place

If it was real it’d stand alone

Wouldn’t need a team

Seven wonders of the system

Guarding what they mean

Policies and checklists

What you can and can’t say

Truth trimmed to a paragraph

So nobody’s afraid

Fact-check stamps and watchdogs

Paid to bark on cue

Neutral by the branding

But they always bite the same few

Money draws the boundary

Quiet as a knife

No ad, no app, no payment

No oxygen for life

And at the bottom sits the oracle

Confident and clean

Answers shaped by what’s allowed

Not by what’s unseen

Seven wonders of the system

Call it false or true

Not by what it is

But what it might make you do

If it was real it’d stand alone

Wouldn’t need a screen

Seven wonders of the system

Deciding what’s obscene

Truth don’t need a system

Never asked to be believed

It waits outside the paperwork

For anyone who’ll see

One day they’ll change the headline

Say we always knew

Another wonder falls to dust

Like every wonder do