The Future Didn'T Amount To Much

Stay in your lane
Is the best you can say
When you told us we could reach the stars?
Now my last pair of shoes
Are melting in the pavement
While billionaires fuck off to mars.
Because the only place left with out
Brand advertisements
Are skies we once thought anybody could touch.
Aren't you angry at all
The future didn't amount to much?

Remember tv shows with flying cars?
Robots that weren't designed to steal your art?
And if they could, they'd take your beating heart.
The future didn't amount to much.

We're what's left of the
Hopeful young.
For a while, there's been
Slim to none.
We are coming for what was promised
By those who have failed us.

I would walk 30 miles to your house to hang out
On what's now Howard Schultz boulevard.
There's some college apartments and a lulu lemon
On what used to be your front yard
And the only thing they haven't bought underneath us is
Our empty thoughts as the rich fucking eat us.
Oh what a shame
The future didn't amount to much?

Remember what they told you in grade school?
And now you're in the same place as the honor roll.
Digging yourself out of a financial hole.
The future didn't amount to much.

We're what's left of the
Hopeful young.
For a while, there's been
Slim to none.
We are coming for what was promised
By those who have failed us.

I've been playing the Sims 3
To live out my fantasy
Of someday owning a home
I just financed my PC
With no credit history
So I just leveraged my soul

Thank you surveillance capital
And thank you Tim Apple
For getting to know me so well
Thank you Fox News and Q anon
You radicalized Dad and Mom
Your children are going to hell

Dump your bleach in
Coral reefs and
Start another 
Twitter beef and
Carbon footprints, tax relief
TikTok makes me want to unalive myself
Give us all your
Fentanyl
It mixes well with
Alcohol
And Watch my friends all
Start to fall
My retirement plan's the apocalypse

We're what's left of the hopeful young.