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[Chorus] They don’t really care about us Left or right, it’s a tailored bluff Same hands on the scales when the votes get cut While we tear each other up They don’t really care about us Keep the pressure high, keep the anger up If we ever unite, that’s dangerous stuff So they manufacture what breaks our trust (They don’t really care about us) [Verse 1 – Dense, Controlled, Layered] Independent — I never depended on senators Center of rhetoric, measuring benefits Watching the delicate web of incentives Threaded through parties pretending they’re separate Red team, blue team — scripted hostility Privately meeting with mutual utility Publicly fueling the tribal fragility Quietly trading on future volatility Follow the capital, trace where it’s allocated Same conglomerates heavily saturated Funding the factions that claim they’re antagonists Manufactured collapse is exaggerated We fight over symbols and social theatrics They tighten the grip through financial mechanics Drafting the policies, passing them rapid While headlines keep half of us trapped in a panic Emotion’s a weapon, they load it and fire it Turn every grievance combustible, viral Cycle the outrage, recycle the spiral Meanwhile the architects sit in the silence [Chorus] They don’t really care about us Left or right, it’s a tailored bluff Same hands on the scales when the votes get cut While we tear each other up They don’t really care about us Keep the pressure high, keep the anger up If we ever unite, that’s dangerous stuff So they manufacture what breaks our trust [Verse 2 – Faster Pocket Switches] Algorithmic division precision-designed Feeding the feed with a mission to blind Keeping us triggered and instantly primed So we never examine who’s pulling the lines It isn’t chaotic — it’s coordinated Narratives crafted and force-calibrated Every election emotionally weighted So structural questions get suffocated They’ll amplify anything racially charged Or culturally volatile, nationally scarred As long as we’re barking and guarding our yards We’re never comparing the balance sheets large Global summits behind tinted glass Regulators dining with corporate brass Conflicts of interest? They laugh and pass Call it bipartisan progress — that’s class Left wing, right wing — same machine Different performance, same routine If neighbors ever stop choosing teams The curtain drops on the whole regime [Bridge – Controlled, Cinematic Build] This country was built by hands in the dirt By risk and reward and sweat on a shirt Not lobby disclosures dispersed in the blur Or think tank papers that twist every word “We the people” — volatile phrase If we reclaim it, it shifts the terrain Because unity fractures the power they maintain More than a thousand partisan campaigns [Final Chorus] They don’t really care about us Left or right, it’s a tailored bluff Same hands on the scales when the votes get cut While we tear each other up They don’t really care about us Keep the pressure high, keep the anger up If we ever unite, that’s dangerous stuff So they manufacture what breaks our trust (They don’t really care about us)