Waking up again another day:

I guess I must have slept,

but it doesn't feel that way

Another midnight call with India:

Fixing shit that doesn't matter

For another cog half a world away.

These cogs are rusting, soon they're gonna break,

There's only so much more that I can take.

Wearing out like an old battery

They're slowly draining my humanity

Sometimes I wonder why we're still here

They don't give a shit about us,

And that's becoming clear

Coding's just a modern factory,

We're writing our own replacements,

So the owners can make some more money

These cogs are rusting, soon they're gonna break,

There's only so much more that I can take.

Wearing out like an old battery

They're slowly draining my humanity

Whoa, Whoa, Whoa

Whoa, Whoa, Whoa

We're doing our best, but there's no time to rest

You can sleep when you're dead they say

This can't be right, but there's no time to fight,

We've got too many bills to pay

There was a dream not all that long ago,

Techno Utopia, seemed oh so possible.

But now we've seen that dream has been betrayed,

Lust for accumulation drove it away.

Oh hell it's the capitalists and they've come to take it all,

They could feed the world, they could house the poor but they'd rather see you crawl!

These cogs are rusting, soon they're gonna break,

There's only so much more that I can take.

Wearing out like an old battery

They're slowly draining my humanity