Tick—tock
Teeth—locked
Head down
Don’t look

Clock digs teeth in a paper cage
Rot-lung smiles, minimum wage
Neck-hung dreams on a choke-chain tight
Sign your name, give up the fight
Eyes stitched shut, don’t ask why
Hands bleed waiting in line
They call it living, call it clean
But nothing here gets out unseen

They sell you fear in a gospel tone
Teach you pain is yours alone
Say “stay quiet, stay in place”
Obey the knife that wears your face

Running — running in the rat race
Chew the lie, don’t taste
Blindfold faith, head-down pace
Count the teeth, not the face
Running — running in the rat race
Fall in line, dislocate
March in time, know your place
Running with the blind

With the blind

Gold-leaf crowns on a rusted throne
Call it choice — but you’re owned
Think like us or lose your name
Different skin, same grave
If you flinch, you’re marked to burn
If you learn, you don’t return
Wake up screaming, labeled sick
Fall asleep — they call it fixed

Clap on beat for empty air
Wolves grin wide, sheep stare
Truth gets buried, tagged “extreme”
Silence keeps the machine clean

Running — running in the rat race
Chew the lie, don’t taste
Blindfold faith, head-down pace
Count the teeth, not the face
Running — running in the rat race
Fall in line, dislocate
March in time, know your place
Running with the blind

Eyes sewn shut with comfort and fear
They’d rather rot than see it clear
If the herd walks straight into flame
They’ll call the fire a different name

Different name
Different name

Running — running in the rat race
Same cold god, same dead face
Open eyes are a disgrace
So they nail you in your place
Running — running in the rat race
Think for yourself — erased
I’d rather choke on ugly truth
Than live blind, dressed in faith

I stopped running—
They circled me.

Rat Race

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Rat Race

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