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Who Owes Who?
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Who Owes Who?
Verse 1
Iron crossed the map before the borders held their names A chief sold a captive, a merchant bought the chain A village raided villages, a kingdom priced the road A flag insured the cargo when the harbor took the load The whip changed hands so often history lost the count Many hands can touch a crime; none can thin the amount
Pre-chorus
One says, "Do not charge my child for what I never made" One says, "Do not close the books on old accounts, we need to get paid" The gavel lifts, the room goes mute Two clean hands raise different proof
Chorus
Who Owes Who? When the chains are gone and freedom came through? Who Owes Who? When the wound has a date but the debt has no due? No living heir held the chain No wounded name can bill on fame One let freedom fly, one brings proof Who Owes Who?
Verse 2
Then Western law made pigment carry what the contract meant A child became collateral before a breath was spent Banks kept the paper, ports kept widening the gate Freedom broke the padlock; it could not clear the rate The field became a suburb, then the suburb drew a line The body left the ledger; the ledger kept its time
Verse 3
A mechanic in a rented room gets named as if he gained From a ship his people never owned, a field they never claimed His granddad crossed an ocean with one suitcase and a trade No deed, no mill, no bank account where old returns were made He turns the letter over; no institution named Just pigment in the debtor box, no estate attached
Chorus
Who Owes Who? When the chains are gone and freedom came through? Who Owes Who? When the wound has a date but the debt has no due? No living heir held the chain No wounded name can bill on fame One let freedom fly, one brings proof Who Owes Who?
Verse 4
Across the desk, a teacher brings a county plat in red A house her grandpa paid for, but no bank would fund the deed The freeway took the storefront; the tax base left the school The courthouse filed the taking under neutral-looking rules She does not ask his childhood to confess what it did not do She taps the lender's seal and says, "This signature came through"
Bridge
The clerk removes the color chart and spreads the records wide A bank stamp, county seal, a campus by the tide One page names the profit, one page cannot name the dead The room can trace the money; can it price the life it fed? The gavel hovers once above the unpaid years A number fits the paper; no number fits the fear
Verse 5
At one long table both set down what they can prove One has no inherited vault; one has an inherited wound One says, "I never built that wall." One says, "I pay its toll." The archive names the owners, then goes quiet on the soul The judge asks who kept earning when the guilty left the room The clock strikes; no one answers who owes what to whom
Pre-chorus
One says, "Do not charge my child for what I never made" One says, "Do not close the books on old accounts, we need to get paid" The gavel lifts, the room goes mute Two clean hands raise different proof
Chorus
Who Owes Who? When the chains are gone and freedom came through? Who Owes Who? When the wound has a date but the debt has no due? No living heir held the chain No wounded name can bill on fame One let freedom fly, one brings proof Who Owes Who?
Outro
The lock is in a museum The receipt is in a fable Who Owes Who?
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Who Owes Who?
One says, "Do not charge my child for what I never made" One says, "Do not close the books on old accounts, we need to get paid"
The lock is in a museum The receipt is in a fable
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- Release date of this source
- August 21, 2026
- This source on YouTube · Eastern
- August 20, 2026
- Playlist addition · Eastern
- August 21, 2026
- Duration
- 5:23
- YouTube views
- 23
- Catalog source video ID
- i2hK2_6uAoY