Counting Sheep

Sheep livestock sounds

Hook

Born in a system you did not and would not have chosen to choose

Fed every lie every day every way what to think what to lose

Use you abuse you consume you and lose you and still collect dues

Wake up in a cage every day in a daze and you still don't know whose

They own the food own the cure own the air own the floor own the door

Wolves never sleep never stop never rest always hungry for more

Keep you face down on the ground while they run up the score

They built the cage and they sold you the goddamn brochure

Verse 1

Fresh out the womb and the program begins

Sit your ass down fall in line don't ask questions fit in

Don't ask why just memorize grin and begin

Regurgitate lessons ring the bell start again

Eighteen years in a machine built to win

Your compliance your labor your soul and your skin

On time on the clock punching in on the chin

Architecture intentional keeping you pinned

Eat this wear that take this pill everyday

Doctor prescribing it insurance gonna pay

Pharma machine running perfectly maintained relay

Keeping you functional broken and okay

Okay enough to show up okay enough to obey

Used up discarded and replaced without delay

Another body on the line filling your space today

The cycle was designed to keep the wolves fed and in play

Verse 2

Look down at your hand at the glass and the glow

Every scroll every tap feeding data below

To a system that knows you better than people you know

Mapping every weakness every fear every low

Every search in the dark every 3am thought

Every argument typed every answer you sought

Packaged and sold back as content already bought

Attention is the currency and yours has been caught

You think you're the user you think that you browse

But you're livestock with wifi just cattle that scrolls

They built an invisible fence around your mind and your soul

And you paid for the device that's keeping you in the hole

Verse 3

Chase the car chase the house chase the brand on your chest

Chase the image in the feed telling you what is best

Chase the version of yourself that the algorithm blessed

Die exhausted on the treadmill never stopping to assess

News confirms the fear fear confirms what you spend

Spend confirms the need need confirms it again

Loop it back to the beginning never finding the end

Comfort is the leash and they're holding both ends

Different products different faces but the frame is the same

Different channel different crisis but it's all the same game

Rage at the other side while they're laughing off frame

You're not awake if you just switched which wolf you became

Verse 4

Pick a side pick a team pick a color to wear

Red or blue on the screen like they actually care

Same machine different mask different face different chair

Same wolves different costumes feeding off your despair

Left is mad right is mad everybody's mad at the wrong

Person in the room while the room's getting robbed all along

They engineered the argument engineered where you belong

Now you and your neighbor fighting over whose version is wrong

Hit the booth pull the lever feel the power you own

Every candidate selected every seed has been sown

Before you knew the race existed before it was shown

You were picking between puppets you were never on the throne

They don't care who wins they care that you trust the machine

That the choice was ever real that the ballot is clean

That's the con that's the trick that's the lie in between

Different party same agenda different face same regime

Hook

Born in a system you did not and would not have chosen to choose

Fed every lie every day every way what to think what to lose

Use you abuse you consume you and lose you and still collect dues

Wake up in a cage every day in a daze and you still don't know whose

They own the food own the cure own the air own the floor own the door

Wolves never sleep never stop never rest always hungry for more

Keep you face down on the ground while they run up the score

They built the cage and they sold you the goddamn brochure

Bridge

We were healers we were builders we were something alive

Before the machine told us what we needed to survive

Now we're scrolling through a feed while the feed scrolls inside

Serial numbers in a system that was never on our side

They see exactly what it costs they just pocket the tide

And laugh at what we handed them and called it our pride

Hook

Born in a system you did not and would not have chosen to choose

Fed every lie every day every way what to think what to lose

Use you abuse you consume you and lose you and still collect dues

Wake up in a cage every day in a daze and you still don't know whose

They own the food own the cure own the air own the floor own the door

Wolves never sleep never stop never rest always hungry for more

Keep you face down on the ground while they run up the score

They built the cage and they sold you the brochure

Outro

You don't wake up one day and realize you're a sheep

It happens slow

One scroll at a time

One headline at a time

One comfort at a time

One fear at a time

Until the fence feels like home

Until the phone feels like a hand to hold

Until freedom feels dangerous

And the cage feels chosen

That's not an accident

That's the product

And you already paid for it