Imprisoned by the Syndicate

My eyes slowly rise from a shut state

Clearly an open and shut case

Imprisoned by the Syndicate

Microchips implanted in my wrist I get

Branded mugshot scan it along with a handprint

And the biometric tracking is mandatory

Where my story begins

Just another prisoner whose making amends

The cell doors open

Everyone exits their cells in a uniform motion

But none of us move until the guard has spoken

'Cause a broken jaw ain't a pleasant notion

"Single file to the chow hall"

And our cold titanium stalls become walls

Gravity shackles engage

Between my thin wrists and I shift my legs

Shuffle past the Med ward

Where the Med board is hard at work with their record

Sedate the inmates and make peace

So strayed seeds and crazies one day cease

To miscalibrate the state's needs

By doing just whatever they pleased

You gotta follow every law to the letter

Or find yourself in prison sitting with men who refuse doing better

A new privacy application is making waves in the news again

After another wave of arrests have brought down at least 35 people in six states

Related to online privacy and neutrality

I'm fresh to my con-clique

A conclave of convicts who wronged this

System devoid of all conflict upon which

Speaking out gets you jailed with a promptness

Speech is a crime defined by the law now

Incorrect speech, incarcerate long now

Used to be the way to the convey your freedom

Now it's just a way to display your demons

"Fuck police!"

Beat fellow citizens up on the streets

The ones they swore to protect from elites

But now fight their battles with batons and beat

Anyone who doesn't conform to the norm

Established by the branches of a government board

From a document drafted to ensure the survival

But instead it destroyed all our rights to rival

Because the corrupt found a way to stop it