Cultural Debt

Verse 1

Ghost

In the machine

I see the strings

Pulling your limbs like a puppet

Selling that fake depth to the public

Lies

Heavy

Weighted

You paint a picture that you never lived

Taking more than you could ever give

Actor

Hiding in the hills

Chasing those artificial thrills

Plastic

Pedigree

Pretty boy persona for the industry

I walk where the concrete is cracked

You run where the contract is backed

Chorus

Culture vulture

Culture vulture

Pick the bones of the struggle for a dollar

Culture vulture

Culture vulture

Choke on the gold inside your collar

Verse 2

Passport stamps

Fake accents

Borrowed personas

Used like a rental car

Washed up

Tired

Scripted

The ghostwriter wrote your soul away

Sold your truth for a holiday

Toronto

Memphis

London

Pick a city

Pick a life

Hide the family

Hide the strife

Empty

Vessel

Echoing the sounds of the youth

Running away from the mirror of truth

Sick

Sad

Subtle

The facade is starting to crumble down

The king is wearing a plastic crown

Chorus

Culture vulture

Culture vulture

Pick the bones of the struggle for a dollar

Culture vulture

Culture vulture

Choke on the gold inside your collar

Bridge

No heart

No home

Just a brand

Just a brand

Just a brand

Built on the backs of the real ones

Stolen from the ones who feel ones

Verse 3

Mirrors

Broken

Reflecting nothing but the greed inside

Nowhere left for you to run and hide

Fronting

Faking

Falling

You never bled for the lines you spit

You never fought for a piece of it

Fraud

Phony

Faded

The industry built you a pedestal

But the fall is gonna be skeletal

Gone

Done

Dust

Chorus

Culture vulture

Culture vulture

Pick the bones of the struggle for a dollar

Culture vulture

Culture vulture

Choke on the gold inside your collar

Outro

The ink is dry

The ghost is gone

The mask is off

Nothing left but the silence

Nothing left but the shame

Nothing left but the game

Over