Bought & Sold

(Verse 1)

There’s a man in a suit on a late-night call

Selling pieces of us like it’s nothing at all

Shaking hands with a devil in a tailored tie

While the rest of us just try to get by

Main Street’s fading, signs coming down

Jobs got shipped to the other side of town

They said “trust us,” but we know the game

Different faces, but it’s all the same

(Pre-Chorus)

Yeah, they talk real smooth on the evening news

But you don’t see the strings they use

(Chorus)

It’s bought and sold, heart and soul

Truth don’t matter when you’re chasing gold

Corporate kings and government thrones

Writing laws from their million-dollar homes

We break our backs, they raise their stakes

Smile wide while the system breaks

Yeah, we’re just numbers they control

In a world that’s bought and sold

(Verse 2)

Lobby doors got a VIP sign

If you got enough cash, you can cut the line

They don’t hear us when we scream and shout

Too busy cashing checks to drown us out

Factories quiet, but the silence screams

Another family losing everything

While they toast to deals behind closed doors

Counting profits, starting wars

(Pre-Chorus)

They call it freedom, call it fair

But there ain’t no justice anywhere

(Chorus)

It’s bought and sold, heart and soul

Truth don’t matter when you’re chasing gold

Corporate kings and government thrones

Writing laws from their million-dollar homes

We break our backs, they raise their stakes

Smile wide while the system breaks

Yeah, we’re just numbers they control

In a world that’s bought and sold

(Bridge)

But there’s a rumble in the dirt tonight

People waking up, ready to fight

You can’t bury truth forever down

It grows back strong in a small-town crowd

(Final Chorus)

Yeah, it’s bought and sold—but not for long

We’ve been quiet way too long

From rusted trucks to neon lights

We’re done backing down from the fight

They can keep their greed and gold

We ain’t losing what we hold

Yeah, we’re more than what they stole

From a world that’s bought and sold

(Outro)

Yeah, you can hear it in the roads…

We ain’t staying bought and sold