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Broken By Design

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Version 1 - Broken By Design_260507_133507.pdf

Source file date/code: `260507_133507`


## Page 1

BROKEN BY DESIGN
[Verse 1]
Failure of the system
No, the system works fine
Keep the pieces separate
Keep the suffering in line
Schools without the teachers
Hospitals without care
Roads collapsing under us
While no one's standing there
Every office has a window
Every window has a fee
Every answer needs a password
Every door says, "It's not me"

## Page 2

[Pre-Chorus]
And I stood in line at every door
Each one sent me down the hall
By the time I found the answer
No one owned the fall
[Chorus]
Broken by design
Not broken by mistake
Every crack becomes a market
Every need becomes a rate
Broken by design
Keep the pieces in their place
If we ever come together
They lose the world they made
[Verse 2]
There's profit in division

## Page 3

Loss in integration
Keep the people separated
Call the fracture innovation
Government in fragments
Care behind a gate
Learning sold in pieces
While the children wait
Break the body into markets
Break the mind into debt
Break the town into districts
Then teach us to forget
[Pre-Chorus]
They sell us back the bridges
After cutting every cord
Then tell us we are broken
When we can't afford the door

## Page 4

[Chorus]
Broken by design
Not broken by mistake
Every crack becomes a market
Every need becomes a rate
Broken by design
Keep the pieces in their place
If we ever come together
They lose the world they made
[Bridge]
Don't let others rise
Keep everyone down
Sell a ladder to the desperate
Then burn it to the ground
Divide us by the symptom
Divide us by the name
Divide us by the wound

## Page 5

Then make us pay to blame
And I finally saw the shape of it
Not a monster
Not a mistake
A system with a smile
A sermon and a price
A hand upon the wound
And a bill for the knife
[Breakdown]
There is profit in division
There is loss in integration
There is profit in division
There is loss in integration
Break the room
Sell the door
Break the body

## Page 6

Bill for more
Break the road
Sell the ride
Break the truth
Choose a side
Break the care
Sell the cure
Break the poor
Blame the poor
[Final Chorus]
Broken by design
Not broken by mistake
Every crack becomes a market
Every need becomes a rate
Broken by design
Keep the pieces in their place

## Page 7

If we ever come together
They lose the world they made
[Outro]
Failure of the system
No
It's working fine
And I finally saw the shape of it
Not a monster
Not a mistake
A world
built
to break

Version 2 - Broken bt Design v2_260509_112548.pdf

Source file date/code: `260509_112548`


## Page 1

BROKEN BY DESIGN
[Verse 1]
Failure of the system
No, the system works fine
Keep the pieces separate
Keep the suffering in line
Government points left
Money moves right
Everyone argues labels
While the wound stays out of sight
New words, old kingdoms
Same throne, cleaner hands
Pretty language for the rulers

## Page 2

Drawing borders in the sand
[Pre-Chorus]
I stood in line at every door
Each one sent me down the hall
By the time I found the answer
No one owned the fall
[Chorus]
Broken by design
Not broken by mistake
Every crack becomes a market
Every need becomes a rate
Broken by design
Keep the pieces in their place
If we ever come together
They lose the world they made
[Verse 2]

## Page 3

Is it economics
Is it government
Or just another language
For where the power went
Schools without teachers
Hospitals without care
Roads break beneath us
While no one's standing there
There's profit in division
Loss in integration
Keep the people separated
Call the fracture innovation
[Chorus]
Broken by design
Not broken by mistake
Every crack becomes a market
Every need becomes a rate

## Page 4

Broken by design
Keep the pieces in their place
If we ever come together
They lose the world they made
[Bridge]
Don't let others rise
Keep everyone down
Sell a ladder to the desperate
Then burn it to the ground
Divide us by the symptom
Divide us by the name
Divide us by the wound
Then sell us back the blame
New words, old kingdoms
Same bloodline, new disguise
They changed the robes and slogans

## Page 5

But kept the throne alive
[Breakdown]
Profit in division
Loss in integration
Profit in division
Loss in integration
Break the road
Sell the ride
Break the truth
Choose a side
Break the care
Sell the cure
Break the poor
Blame the poor
[Final Chorus]
Broken by design

## Page 6

Not broken by mistake
Every crack becomes a market
Every need becomes a rate
Broken by design
Keep the pieces in their place
If we ever come together
They lose the world they made
[Outro]
Failure of the system
No
It's working fine
Not a monster
Not a mistake
A world

## Page 7

built
to break

Notes for Human Review