Payday!
(Mankind, you had your chance!)
(Verse 1)
We dug the earth and stripped it bare,
Chasing power without a care,
We poisoned rivers, cut down trees,
Sowed the seeds of our disease.
The air is thick, the oceans rise,
We closed our hearts, we shut our eyes,
Our greed was loud, our vision blind,
Now we face the toll of time.
(Pre-Chorus)
We took, we broke, we burned it all,
Ignored the warnings, let it fall,
The clock is ticking, the hour's near,
The price is coming, crystal clear.
(Chorus)
Payday! Payday! The world’s coming for us now,
We ran the race, but it’s over, can't turn back the plow,
Mankind pays for the sins it made,
Earth won’t cry, just turn away—
Payday! Payday!
It’s time to face the debt,
We sold our soul, now the world’s got a threat,
world’s got a threat.
(Verse 2)
We built our towers, reached the sky,
But the ground was sinking deep inside,
The forest screamed, the ice sheets bled,
But we kept turning our heads instead.
The rivers choke on plastic lies,
The heat's a fire in the skies,
The land was ours, or so we thought,
Now we reap the harvest we have wrought.
(Pre-Chorus)
We took, we broke, we burned it all,
Ignored the warnings, let it fall,
The clock is ticking, the hour's near,
The price is coming, crystal clear.
(Chorus)
Payday! Payday! The world’s coming for us now,
We ran the race, but it’s over, can't turn back the plow,
Mankind pays for the sins it made,
Earth won’t cry, just turn away—
Payday! Payday! It’s time to face the debt,
We sold our soul, now the world’s got a threat
now the world’s got a threat
(Bridge)
No more time to hide, no more lies to tell,
The planet spins on, without us as well.
It doesn’t need us to breathe, to thrive,
We’re the parasites, we’ve lost our drive.
(Chorus)
Payday! Payday!
The world’s coming for us now,
We ran the race, but it’s over, can't turn back the plow,
(Outro)
Payday… payday…
The end of a century of shame,
Payday… Payday…
The world won’t mourn, we played the game.
Payday… Payday…