Balance Sheet

Title: Balance Sheet Artist: Black Thread Union [Intro] [Verse 1] Three options glowing on a clean gray tray The cheap one feels like a mistake you made The heavy one is built to break your bank So you settle for the middle like the system planned A perfect metric in a simulated slot Buying back the freedom that you thought you bought The delivery is coming but the house is cold Just another user being tracked and sold [Pre-Chorus] Tick the little box Sign the dotted line Give away the muscle And the memory spine They built a better tunnel For the animal run Three clean choices And you picked the middle one [Chorus] Pick the middle Pay the fee Smile for the balance sheet Three clean doors One loaded room Freedom with a barcode bloom Yeah Smile for the balance sheet [Verse 2] They know the exact second that your finger stays They know the tiny shadow where the logic frays A tailored panic on a custom screen The smoothest extraction that you’ve ever seen You stack the cardboard boxes in a plastic bin And wait to see where the updates begin A generation staring at a loading bar Forgetting who they were before the numbers learned [Pre-Chorus] Tick the little box Sign the dotted line Give away the muscle And the memory spine They built a better tunnel For the animal run Three clean choices And you picked the middle one [Chorus] Pick the middle Pay the fee Smile for the balance sheet Three clean doors One loaded room Freedom with a barcode bloom [Bridge] Itemized Optimized Skin tagged clean And monetized Categorized Filed at night A line of code In the clean blue light You are the product You are the price You are the hunger They learned to slice THEY LEARNED TO SLICE [Final Chorus] Pick the middle Pay the fee Smile for the balance sheet Three clean doors One loaded room Freedom with a barcode bloom Pick the middle Pay the fee Smile for the balance sheet [Outro]