A clean sterlization

Scroll through the feed, the feed scrolls back Every headline's got a knife in its back Left hand screaming, right hand lies No signal left, just manufactured cries They inoculate your outrage, dose it measured out You can't feel the wound until you're full of doubt And you're reaching for something real But your hands go straight through the glass Something that you could feel But it moves too fast, too fast This is a clean sterilisation No germs, no truth, no contamination Scrubbed of every human function We're boxed in at every junction Clean, clean, clean They made us clean Can't catch the fever if you're Already dead inside the machine AI writes the news before the news occurs Corporate outrage dressed in activist words Both sides of the wall sell the same blind fear You think you're informed but you're just Kept here, kept here No room to move, no room to breathe Every fact is branded, packaged, sealed Nothing left to grieve And you're reaching for something real But your hands go straight through the glass Something that you could feel But the signal's gone, it's gone This is a clean sterilisation No germs, no truth, no contamination Scrubbed of every human function We're boxed in at every junction Clean, clean, clean They made us clean Can't catch the fever if you're Already dead inside the machine You can't act on what you don't believe. You can't believe what you can't verify. You can't verify because the tools are broken. The tools are broken and they sold you the warranty. Left or right, it doesn't matter — the room is the same room. The walls just have different wallpaper. And the air in here is recycled. And we are recycled. And nothing — nothing — is getting in. This is a clean sterilisation Burn down every broadcast station No gods, no feeds, no intermediation Tear the plastic off the nation Clean, clean, CLEAN They made us clean But I'd rather catch the fever Than die sanitised inside this machine Can't feel it / can't act / can't think / can't react Can't feel it / can't act / can't think / can't react