ROI (Return on Injustice)
You cut the budget, blame the poor
Outsource hunger, then ask for more
You fund the war, then sell the news
Buy up the land with the rent we lose
You fire ten, then praise the stock
Close the clinic, raise the block
Call it growth, call it lean
We call it what it is: obscene
[chorus chants]
R O I! return on injustice
Measure the pain, resell the dust
R O I! return on injustice
Bleed the world, then call it a trust
R O I! what’s the value of a life?
Depends on how you price the knife
You mine the data, and the mind
You rent the future, sell the time
Turn every need into a niche
Put paywalls on what used to teach
You brand despair, you sell control
You tax the work, not the gold
You call it free it’s just not fair
When cost is everywhere but there
[bridge]
Optimize.
Externalize.
Privatize.
Maybe Humanize?
[chorus chants]
R O I! return on injustice
What’s the yield on trust decayed?
R O I! return on injustice
What’s your bonus while we fade?
R O I! what’s the value of a soul?
Depends on what you sold it for
[stabby breathless punk energy]
What’s your margin on a mother’s fear?
What’s the markup on a borrowed year?
You price the risk but not the wreck
You balance sheets on broken necks
[chorus chants]
R O I! return on injustice
Count the wounds and call it wealth
R O I! return on injustice
Trade our labor, hoard the health
R O I! you don’t audit what you stole
But we’re the cost
You can’t control
R O I…
Return on injustice.