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Vanida Plamondon (AI Assisted)
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Vanida Plamondon
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November 05, 2025
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Lyrics
Verse 1
The mills are gone, the streets run bare,
The lights still shine, but no one’s there,
The cost climbs high while wages crawl,
And dreams are debts we can’t recall.
They sell us hope on a payment plan,
A house of cards built by the damned,
The rent’s a mountain, the pay’s a floor,
We work to bleed, we sleep to war.
Chorus
What are we doing to ourselves?
How did the world forget to care?
We’re drowning in the wealth of few,
While millions starve on borrowed air.
Verse 2
They call it “growth, we call it pain,
A gilded age reborn again,
Where kings wear suits and talk of trade,
While every worker fades away.
History’s lessons burn in vain,
The same old cycle dressed again,
They price our peace, they sell our years,
Then tax our hunger and feed our fears.
Chorus
What are we doing to ourselves?
How did the world forget to care?
We’re drowning in the wealth of few,
While millions starve on borrowed air.
Verse 3
The cities gleam, but rot inside,
The homeless freeze where profits hide,
The teachers beg, the healers plead,
The poor are fined for what they need.
They call it progress, we call it theft,
They drain the heart till nothing’s left,
We raise our kids on broken ground,
And wonder why there’s no hope found.
Chorus
What are we doing to ourselves?
How did the world forget to care?
We’re drowning in the wealth of few,
While millions starve on borrowed air.
Bridge
Once we built for the common good,
Once we shared what we understood,
Once a job could buy a home,
Now the streets are all we own.
The voices rise, the tempers flare,
The truth’s still gasping for its share,
The past keeps shouting, “You’ve seen this fall!
But greed can’t listen to ghosts at all.
Chorus
What are we doing to ourselves?
How did the world forget to care?
We’re drowning in the wealth of few,
While millions starve on borrowed air.
Outro
Someday the tide will break these chains,
And wash the gold from guilty veins,
The world will learn what value means,
Beyond the numbers, beyond the screens.
We’ll light the dark with mercy’s flame,
And trade our shame for human gain,
Until that day, this song will cry,
“What are we doing, and why, oh why?
