Another Chapter

I remember when it all started, something from a dream
 Addicted to the black and green letters on my screen
 Quicker than my peers, so inherent what it means
 A uni student, prudent, coming out at seventeen
 Watching code ascend 'til it towers like the Eiffel
 Spend my time debugging and they're charging by the cycle
 Studying the language so this guide is now my bible
 The beauty of the baud dedicated this disciple
 The world of the electron, wasn't to be stepped on
 Hackers are the future, we're the ones for you to bet on
 Fuel to the fire like computers were a Chevron
 But this is all decades way before I met John
 So I let on, knowledge gives to wisdom
 Got a job and it pays, and doesn't end in prison
 Help secure computers by installing malware in 'em
 Hoping they don't twist it turning me into the victim
 One more story, one more hacker
 Back to the past when the path got fractured
 Sometimes calm, sometimes disaster
 Turn the page and we start another chapter
 Just another story, just another hacker
 Just another past, up until it shattered
 Sometimes calm, sometimes disaster
 Turn the page and we start another chapter
 This white hat collar job saving me my backbone
 Just the grind on my mind, seems like I'm half clone
 Working for the money, you know how the math goes
 Skills run of mill, feeling like I've plateaued
 Happy with my job though can't afford a chateau
 Could be worse, could've gotten stuck with Castro
 Caught a pink slip, slip into the shadows
 The fire that's been set inside, lungs are like tobacco
 Economic downturn the reason that I'm told
 Appeal would a be waste there's no chance that they'd uphold
 There's no getting caught watch the scene as it unfolds
 Worst case scenario I'm sure to get paroled
 Abandoned so I fold, cancelling the show
 Handed a la mode, now commanded and controlled
 Inject drop cats, cross-site all that
 Felon catching shells every time I hear a callback
 One more story, one more hacker
 Back to the past when the path got fractured
 Sometimes calm, sometimes disaster
 Turn the page and we start another chapter
 Just another story, just another hacker
 Just another past, up until it shattered
 Sometimes calm, sometimes disaster
 Turn the page and we start another chapter
 Compilers and source always all up on my screen
 Internal code, kernel mode, even in my dreams
 Eat sleep breath speak writing all the time
 Structs loops data types always on my mind
 Then it's kicked to the curb: You're not welcome here today
 But this is what they made so I couldn't walk away
 Looking down the road seeing exponential users
 Figured I'd invest since computers are the future
 Learn from the past so I studied all maneuvers
 Tightened up the OPSEC, patching like it's sutures
 Feel I got the short end sharpened with the blade
 Minimum in wage while the criminals get paid
 Justified the raise compensating and betrayed
 Cause fear is too expensive, the cost to be afraid
 The dangers of incentive and a motive in the mixture
 I'm hearing "Farewell", well now there's just Viktor
 One more story, one more hacker
 Back to the past when the path got fractured
 Sometimes calm, sometimes disaster
 Turn the page and we start another chapter
 Just another story, just another hacker
 Just another past, up until it shattered
 Sometimes calm, sometimes disaster
 Turn the page and we start another chapter