dump the chump

Lyrics

[Intro - glitchy synth stabs, acoustic guitar picking, distant crowd chants, raspy male voice half-whispered]
Yeah...
We made this machine, now it makes us bleed
All this noise, all this smoke, all this fake greed

[Verse 1 - restless acoustic drumbreak, filtered bass pulses, calm-to-snarling vocal rise]
How the hell did we let it get this far?
Smoke in the daylight, rot behind the stars
Playtime’s over, the bill is overdue
Political games on the backs of the few

Billionaires laughing while the people pay
Polished little lies in a digital display
Human life like it’s cheap, like it’s less than air
And every clean-cut promise just rots in the glare

[Pre-Chorus - tension building, layered harmonies, rising synths, voice sharpening]
They hide it in the headlines, bury it in the feed
Feed us fear and comfort, then call it what we need
But the mask is cracking, the circus shows its seams
And the ones who see through it are waking from the dream

[Chorus - explosive dnb drop, heavy breakbeats, distorted guitars, shouted gang vocals]
Dump the chump, burn the script, tear the puppet strings apart
Dump the chump, we can’t keep living with a broken-hearted market heart
Humanity, stand up, get our shit straight now
We’re the hands that built this cage, we can tear it down somehow
Dump the chump, no more lies, no more feeding their machine
Dump the chump, this world is ours, not the money in between

[Verse 2 - darker bassline, gritty acoustic strums, raw accusatory delivery]
Convenience got us sleeping with our eyes half shut
Press a button, get a fix, never asking what it cuts
Quality’s collapsing while the prices climb
Garbage dressed as progress, sold as modern times

CEOs in suits acting holy, acting kind
Can’t even support the junk they leave behind
Less than garbage, more frustration in a pretty little shell
And we keep on buying, yeah, we know it all too well

[Pre-Chorus - more urgent, drums thicker, vocal pushed harder with ad-libs]
Money only lives because we let it breathe
Paper gods and numbers built on what we believe
No value in the currency, just a shared-up lie
And they keep us divided while the real world dies

[Chorus - bigger, more anthemic, layered shouts and harmonies]
Dump the chump, burn the script, tear the puppet strings apart
Dump the chump, we can’t keep living with a broken-hearted market heart
Humanity, stand up, get our shit straight now
We’re the hands that built this cage, we can tear it down somehow
Dump the chump, no more lies, no more feeding their machine
Dump the chump, this world is ours, not the money in between

[Bridge - stripped-back acoustic guitar, eerie pads, vulnerable-to-furious vocal]
Maybe the worst of it is we knew
We saw the cracks and we walked on through
Too damn used to the comfort, too damn numb to the fire
Now the streets are asking for something higher

No more closed-room deals, no more stolen years
No more poisoned futures dressed up in careers
Clean up the waste, light up the grid
Build something honest like we should’ve did

[Final Chorus - full band, pounding drums, sidechained bass, raspy screams and crowd chants]
Dump the chump, burn the script, tear the puppet strings apart
Dump the chump, we can’t keep living with a broken-hearted market heart
Humanity, stand up, get our shit straight now
We’re the hands that built this cage, we can tear it down somehow
Dump the chump, no more lies, no more feeding their machine
Dump the chump, this world is ours, not the money in between

[Outro - fading breakbeats, echoing guitar harmonics, reverb-soaked vocals]
We made this mess
We can make it right
Dump the chump...
And choose the light