The People: Seas are rising, earth is burning Waves of death sweep ‘cross the land All the blood spilled is on your hands You ruin this planet we all must share By taking more than you have earned You’ll face the justice you’ve spurned Rise up comrades, the time is right If we’re together, we’ll win this fight You will listen to our calls And know you cannot stop us all Rise up people, show them our might I’ve seen our future and the end is bright We will make you hear our calls You will never stop us all Sit atop your hoarded wealth Like a dragon to be slain Unsustainable is your system of eternal gain Watch Earth die from diamond homes Nothing left to exploit and thieve What will you do when you can’t leave? Rise up comrades, the time is right If we’re together, we’ll win this fight You will listen to our calls And know you cannot stop us all Rise up people, show them our might I’ve seen our future and the end is bright We will make you hear our calls You will never stop us all Rise up comrades, the time is now If we’re together, they’ll break and bow You will listen to our calls And know you cannot stop us all Rise up people, and save the day Joined as one, we’ll find a way We will make you hear our calls You will never— The Rulers: Stop them all!

The People: We’ve tried all we can Our peaceful protests grow out of hand Our defense is not aggression There must be a better plan To make them meet our demands We’ll grab their attention and we won’t let go The Rulers: If no one in power listens to you, There’s no point to anything you do With all we can buy, what makes you think We can’t afford to ignore your pleas? The People: If what you say is right We’ll rally our troops to fight And take what we deserve by force We will push for more But never expect mainstream support Using fear to make our dreams real Threats of violence turn allies away Elders say we’ve lead their children astray When the powers won’t listen to you This is what you must resort to Hatred reaching a tipping point You cannot fix things now When the powers won’t listen to you Posing a danger is what you must do We should’ve known it would come to this You’ve always lacked empathy To steal our lives from us And place profit above humanity You leave us with no choice We must take up arms and fight Slaves no longer we will be People, join us, we can be free The Rulers: You will fall! You will fail! There’s more of us! Than of you! You will fall! You will fail! Live in fear! As you should!

The Rulers: You thought your leaders might protect you But I have them deep in my pocket I buy power to maintain my profits And it always gets me what I want The People: Odds against us Opposition strong We’ll change our tactics And prove you wrong The Rulers: I track all there’s to know about you Invasive devices marketed as necessity Criminals, insurgents, there is no difference The end of privacy is the end of you The People: Surveillance loopholes Selective attacks We’ve plunged in too far For us to turn back The Rulers: You thought your leaders might protect you But I have them deep in my pocket I buy power to maintain my profits And it always gets me what I want The People: Trial by error Uncertain support We learn from the past Or we die by the sword The Rulers: I convince your potential sympathizers To vote against their own survival They believe in corrupt rulers But fail to realize who pulls the strings They’ll deploy bombs and tanks against you Because you are violent perpetrators We’ll say you had it coming For rebelling against the unnatural order You thought your leaders might protect you But I have them deep in my pocket I buy power to maintain my profits And it always gets me what I want You thought your leaders might protect you But I have them deep in my pocket I buy power to maintain my profits And I always get what I want

The Rulers: Great divisions split your meager forces On priorities you can’t decide Where is the unity for which you sang It’s yourselves you truly fight We decimate your disordered armies Thanks to your internal disputes Over who should die in the revolution In the end it will be you Fracture! You’ll fracture! Bend! And break! Get! Back in your place! We’ll force this! To end! People defect en masse from your cause They realize now they fight a losing battle But I will make an example of them Imprisonment, death, warnings to stay in line Peace is no longer an option Compliant citizens must be rewarded But insurgents must be purged And your infighting is doing the job just fine It’s true I can’t disguise my existential fear The rioting and bombing outside my homes and factories Cities on fire and chaos in the streets I can’t wait for these rebels to tear themselves apart Fracture! You’ll fracture! Bend! And break! Get! Back in your place! We’ll force this! To end!

The Rulers: Workforce quitting, assassinations Dropping sales, increasing backlash The status quo must remain unchanged But my grip is slipping from ‘round your neck You don’t understand how much you need me But I will make you see the light Truly we are codependent Wherein lies a final plan The People: You’ve filled our heads with lies all our lives What we need we will make ourselves You beg us to unleash greater weapons And end a dance of codependence The Rulers: I can’t hold on for much longer And I sense an end is near Don’t force me to crush you into submission And fill your waking lives with fear You won’t hold on for much longer You rely on me to survive Don’t force me to crush you into submission Obey me if you want to stay alive The People: Why can’t you understand That the people don’t need you? You siphon your riches off the masses Who toil in wretched in conditions Is a world where we own what we make And live outside our work too much to ask? The Rulers: I can’t hold on for much longer And I sense an end is near Don’t force me to crush you into submission And fill your waking lives with fear You won’t hold on for much longer You rely on me to survive Don’t force me to crush you into submission Obey me if you want to stay alive

The Rulers: We didn’t expect This to happen within our lives Warfare’s catalyst Of the desolation process You exacerbate the problem by destroying this world Contributing to the very cause you sought to eliminate And yet you blame me for refusing to give in When it is you who threaten us to the point of annihilation But there must be a way for me to escape To buy loyalty in an apocalyptic land I must call for some sort of final plan Before your kind kills us all The People: Things must get worse before they improve An old saying that has not yet rung true Our hopes shrink, shrivel, and die As dust and pollution blacken the skies How long ’til the final bombs fall? We can’t be sure if we’ll survive at all Don’t you dare tell us that this is our fault If you’d agreed long ago, this could’ve stopped The Rulers: Impossible to eradicate Decentralized and deep in hiding We’ll take a hint from you And leave you to destroy yourselves Finish off our enemies From the safety of a distance Hired henchmen to do our work The remaining nations Corners of Earth Or into the beyond Underground We’ll carry on The People: We’re in too deep Can’t back out now The last rallying cry Of a war we’re losing Is oppression and enslavement Or hiding in a ruined land Waiting out the nuclear winter Is it better than death? Do our children deserve to live Under the yoke of our masters? We’ve weighed our options and come to see We will stand and fight! The Rulers: We will stand and fight! Deploying all weapons And wiping out dissidents You should have come to see Submission is the only way You could have compromised You could have bowed down This is a lesson you won’t forget You should have chosen life

The Rulers: Fear is the most effective tool When you want to buy loyalty If you promise your labor I promise you’ll live We perfect our final escape We secure our last plan Squabble for the scraps Of a dead Earth Make me a ship to fly past the sun And into the great beyond A built-in class to exploit When we’ve settled somewhere new We perfect our final escape We secure our last plan Squabble for the scraps Of a dead Earth Better a live coward than a dead hero That’s what they always said And it’s your only choice, what’s to lose I think it’s an easy one Hey! You! Pledge me your life! Would! You! Like to be my slave? No more wars and uprisings ’Til long after I’m gone And you know I don’t care about The world after I’m dead Hey! You! Pledge me your life! Would! You! Like to be my slave? The People: Rumors drift about Of what you plan to do Towers in the sky confirm An escape from this place If we can’t get our way You won’t get yours Solace in mutual death Sacrifice the human race One last group enters the field The remaining experts not yet killed We’ll survey the land and make our move We cannot let you represent us You have all gathered here To say goodbye to Earth Taking your slaves and your system Into a society we won’t let you have The Rulers: Prepare the ship for takeoff And pack in all you can I’ve been discovered, I must leave Before they launch an attack Crowds are approaching, breaking the barrier To destroy humanity’s last hope I board the rocket and fire the blasters Maybe there is still time The People: A violent sendoff we will give you Farewell to an unjust rule If we go down, it’s together You cannot live without us Slaves, it’s your last chance You’ll never rise like you’ve been told We can build a better world Of opportunity and equality The Rulers: We perfect our final escape We secure our last plan Squabble for the scraps Of a dead Earth Hey! You! Pledge me your life! Would! You! Like to be my slave? Hey! Wait! Don’t turn on me! Hey! You! This can’t be the end! The People: The rocket bursts in the sky Death to tyrants of all kinds The world is ravaged and broken But we can rise from the ashes of fear It will be a hard road to walk But the end is bright Rebuild in the image Of unity, freedom, equity The Rulers: You can’t keep us at bay forever Your world will change and we will rise again Such is the nature of our species People and ideas of resilience Finding ways to cheat the system To twist and bend it to our wills The future may bring new roles of oppression A time when right is wrong and wrong is right