Users are the Used

About

We used to say if you're not paying for the product then you are the product, but these days you're the product even if you're paying for it.

It comes down to who owns the systems that you rely on

Lyrics

Welcome to the architectures
Pouring concrete on our nature
Choice is nothing but a ghost
Eating from our faceless hosts
You think that you are awake
Your world's a curated fake, yeah
Cage is painted red or blue, or gold
Whatever: just do as you're told

Standing in the field (in the field)
One-sided deal (work for the few)
They're farming you
Battered and confused
They're farming you
Users are the used, yeah

Users are the used (the used) Used
Users are the used (the used) Used
Get yourself a clue (you're used) You
Users are the used (the used) Yeah

Users are the used (the used) Used
Users are the used (the used) Used
Users are the used (the used) You
Users are the used, the used


Harvest season never ends, yes
Count your clicks and count your friends
Silos rising in the sky (wow)
Watch the stolen numbers fly (ooo)
Platform never eats enough
The value mostly travels up
Read the terms and look confused
The users are who's being used

Infrastructure for the few
Powered by the hum of you
Feed you just enough to chew
Keep the texture rough for you
Algorithm makes your news
Tailor-made specific views
Nothing on the screen is true
Selling you the shiny new
Illusion that you get to choose
Heads they win and tails you lose

Users are the used (hoo hoo hooooo)
Users are the used (hoo hoo hooooo)
Users are the used (hoo hoo hooooo) yeah
Users are the used (hoo hoo hooooo)

Users are the used (hoo hoo hooooo)
Users are the used (hoo hoo hooooo)
Users are the used (hoo hoo hooooo) ho!
Users are the user

We have got the working hands
For making cleaner fairer plans
Change the way we learn to cope
Build a steady strand of hope
Disappear the constant fear
Better world begins right here
Don't be the used
Don't be the used

Take back what is real (take that wheel)
Grab your steering wheel (better deal)
Force a better deal (feel your steel)
Make the owners feel (what you feel)

Take back what is real (take that wheel)
Grab your steering wheel (better deal)
Force a better deal (feel your steel)
Make the owners feel (what you feel)

Take back what is real (take that wheel)
Grab your steering wheel (better deal)
Force a better deal (feel your steel)
Make the owners feel

Take back what is real (take that wheel)
Grab your steering wheel (better deal)
Force a better deal (feel your steel)
Make the owners feel

Oooo

Refuse to be the used (hoo hoo hooooo)
Refuse to be the used (hoo hoo hooooo)
Refuse to be the used (hoo hoo hooooo)
Refuse to be the used (hoo hoo hooooo)

Refuse to be the used (hoo hoo hooooo)
Refuse to be the used (hoo hoo hooooo)
Refuse to be the used (hoo hoo hooooo)
Refuse to be the used (hoo hoo hooooo)

Refuse to be the used
Refuse to be the used
Refuse to be the used
Refuse to be the used

Refuse to be the used (hoo hoo hooooo)
Refuse to be the used (hoo hoo hooooo)
Refuse to be the used (hoo hoo hooooo)
Refuse to be the used (hoo hoo hooooo)

Credits

Synthesiser

Suno AI

Lyrics

Mantis Audiogram

Producer

Mantis Audiogram

Composer

Mantis Audiogram