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PAID IMPRESSIONS lyrics
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Verse 1
Sixty-one bus, phone in my face, three ads back to back Same election, two different faces, two opposite tracks One says he'll fix the ports, one says that guy's a fraud Disclaimers in a font so small you'd need a microscope and God My headphones serving something else my cousin never heard This ain't information anymore, it's target practice word
Pre-chorus
Something in the signal feels off Every headline cuts too clean, who sharpened that knife? Who decides what I'm afraid of tonight?
Chorus
Paid impressions every day Someone sold you what to see Bought your fear, your hope, your scroll Paid impressions, check who's in control Check the source Paid impressions on your screen Nobody told you what it means
Verse 2
My boy in Opa-locka got the crime-rate fear version I got job loss uptown, same candidate, different conversion PAC disclosure buried six clicks deep, found it on a Tuesday Twenty thousand people sliced by zip code and what they used to say Video from last week, lip movement off by half a frame Ninety-two percent of viewers never checked who signed their name
Pre-chorus 2
Something in the signal feels off Second time it hits harder, sits right in my chest Who decides what I'm afraid of tonight?
Chorus
Paid impressions every day Someone sold you what to see Bought your fear, your hope, your scroll Paid impressions, check who's in control Check the source Paid impressions on your screen Nobody told you what it means
Verse 3
We ran thirty-seven tests against your demographic frame Fear beat hope by two-point-three, segment seven, that's your name District four got economic threat, the suburbs got the hope play Rotated your recommended content third week, you logged on Monday You chose from a menu that we designed the prior January Didn't lie exactly. Just curated your vocabulary.
Bridge
What if everything you're certain of was built by a model that's never said your name? Not in a film. Last Tuesday. Your feed.
Verse 4
Twenty-six states moving now on AI disclosure law Polls say voters want real plans, not the manufactured jaw I'm reading FEC filings on lunch now, learned to read the game Sent three links to the group chat, two people came
Verse 5
Walk past the billboard now, I read the fine print first Ask who benefits before I choose which claim to trust Your attention is a ballot they are casting every hour Your scroll, your share, your outrage, each one sold as power Register. Research the funding. Track the record, not the tagline. One barbershop conversation moved four minds, that's the baseline. Democracy ain't broken, just can't run on autopilot alone.
Chorus
Paid impressions every day Someone sold you what to see Bought your fear, your hope, your scroll Paid impressions, check who's in control Check the source Paid impressions on your screen Nobody told you what it means
Outro
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Sixty-one bus, phone in my face, three ads back to back Same election, two different faces, two opposite tracks
Something in the signal feels off Every headline cuts too clean, who sharpened that knife?
check the source...
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