In the 99 - Vienna Teng

Collide with faces veiled in paper

Reading line by line the pain there

But for the grace of code and capital

We’d cry out side by side

So why am I the one to praise?

Calculate the Ponzi pension to avoid

Unintended consequences of a choice

Now am I so confident I am the one

Earning every pretty sum and deserving every toy

Am I selling broken bonds or innovation?

Someone’s yelling get a job out of a Lincoln

But the human microphone will find a voice

And a change is gonna come, said the signal

To the —

Remind me in my western chamber

What this plan’s designed to save here

I haven’t come to say I’m sorry

But I swear I’m on your side

Oh I am not the one who preys

Betting on the best semesters you can buy

Digging out of debt, sequestered, unemployed

Underwater empty nesters in a slum

Television for the bums, helicopter for the boys

Marketplace of multi-culti competition

Building out the fossil fracking operation

Careful of a bird blacker than a swan

'cause a change is gonna come, said the signal

To the noise

Were you never in the 99?

You are ever in the 99

We are ever in the 99

We are ever in the 99

Am I the one to praise?

Collide with faces veiled in paper

Reading line by line the pain there

I haven’t come to say I’m sorry

But I swear I’m on your side

We are ever in the 99