Reparations for a Rigged Economy
We won’t go silent, we won’t be shamed—This stolen life will be reclaimed.
(Verse 1)
They told us to work, to dream, to strive,
But stole the future while we were alive.
We borrowed hope just to get through school,
Now we drown in debt—they call that the rule.
They took our health and sold it for gold,
Turned healing and learning into things bought and sold.
Now we break beneath what we can't afford,
While billionaires laugh behind every door.
(Chorus)
It's time to rise, time to see,
Reparations for a rigged economy.
They looted the people, gave it to the few,
Now justice comes, and the bill is due.
We won’t go silent, we won’t be shamed—
This stolen life will be reclaimed.
(Verse 2)
My mother worked nights, my father two jobs,
Still lost their home to the banking mob.
I studied hard, did what they said,
Now I sign away half my life to stay fed.
They shattered the unions, broke every rule,
Turned truth into lies and kindness to cruel.
They built a machine on our sweat and tears,
And told us we’d prosper in twenty more years.
(Bridge)
But we remember—
When schools were free and healing was near,
When housing was fair, and wages were clear.
We remember, and we demand—
To take back this stolen land.
(Chorus)
It's time to rise, time to see,
Reparations for a rigged economy.
They poisoned the well, but we still thirst—
Now justice rolls, unrehearsed.
We won’t bow down, we won’t pretend—
This age of theft must find its end.
(Outro – Spoken with building music)
For every diploma weighed down with debt,
For every sick child the system forgets,
For every wage stolen and life delayed—
We rise not with mercy, but with justice paid.
Reparations.
For every lie they told.
For every dream they sold.
It’s time.