[VERSE I]
Backs break on the yoke.
Descending into blood.
Splintering bones
with nothing to show.
"Give us this chance," they said
"Give us this bread," they prayed.
If work is what gives them worth,
what worth is in broken men?
[CHORUS I]
Grinding away their lives.
Harrowing days of late.
Thin and stretched they prayed,
but nothing skyward came.
[VERSE II]
The ranks began to thin,
falling to shade.
Desiccated husk
devoid of compassion.]
One by one they fell,
preyed upon by greed.
Eviscerated wholly
by con men and thieves.
Families decimated by
avarice unleashed.
"Deliver us all from evil"
A plea made in futility.
[CHORUS II]
Grinding away their lives.
Harrowing days of late.
Thin and stretched they prayed,
but nothing skyward came.
Machine bereft of humanity.
Degradation unparalleled.
Apex of ultimate suffering
looked upon with absolute apathy.
[ENDING]
Slaves to this machine they are
and resigned to their chains.
Blind to the way before them.
Self-flagellating fools they stay.
A slumbering behemoth stirs and shifts
in the hearts of men.
Shaking chains to the ground
in time with blood that beats within.
And these bonds are sundered
rending subjugation.
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