Within the Walls

We can never go outside
Without permission from the Overlords
We can never see outside the walls
They say it’s unsafe
They say it’s risky
They tell us danger outside abounds

We live within the border
Surrounded by a wall so high
Thick, impenetrable, permanent
Within our cozy cubes
Screens and walls of gray
We cannot leave

In this dark and dismal place
We work hard throughout the day
Always too much work to go around
So we stay well into the night
And then shuttle off to sleep
Just to wake and do it all again

Every day…they tell us that we’re nothing
By the effort to make it easier
The effort they don’t make
The Overlords just don’t care
As they fire the ten percent
And then increase the load

They break our spirits
They break our backs
They wreck our minds
No wonder so many are drunkards
In the little spare time they have
As their lives mean nothing but labor

Within this country’s walls,
Built to keep the foreigner out
Now trapping the citizen in
No escape to a better place
Just perpetual overtime
Perpetual pain

The Overlords just laugh
As they rake the money in…