We ride the conveyor belt through the factory,

considered trash if we turn out unsatisfactory

according to the System’s subliminal expectations

to become a product with minimal complications.

If you don’t comply with the standard for conformity,

you are labeled as having a defect or deformity.

We don’t see it because the curriculum is hidden

and speaking of such things is strictly forbidden.

To keep order in society, we burden the individual.

It’s the basis of organization in our every ritual.

Sometimes someone rises to make a change begin,

but in the end, they always let the System win.

It has been weakened before  – just not killed,

but each of us individuals is specifically skilled.

Each of us can make the effort to put a gouge in it

if each of us is willing to take maybe a minute

to step outside the long lines in which we stand

and turn ourselves away from the circling hand

that we all revolve around only because we feel

that it’s what decides when it is right to kneel,

when it’s time to eat, and when it’s right to pray

and when it’s time to beat someone up for being gay.

Praying is a worthless waste and so is war.

There really is only one war worth fighting for.

The war against the System can happen now

if only the individual could rise up somehow.

Those who don’t become a product of the machine

are the ones who walk among the rest, unseen.

We walk within them, but remain on the outside.

When you’re invisible, there is no reason to hide.

That is what needs to change to set a precedent.

Follow your own self no matter who’s the President.

Ignore the preacher who tells you what’s a sin.

Join us on the outside as we work our way in

until all eyes have been opened to a new place

where we acknowledge and accept every face,

not just as people, but as individual selves

instead of labeled products placed on shelves.

When you were stifled, remember the way you felt.

and help us pull people off the conveyor belt.