The Fine Print

Welcome to space, what were you expecting?
 It's a dangerous place, thank you for investing
 Go there for your rota, there for your orders
 Fill up these quotas, we'll bill for your quarters
 Report to your foreman but watch for marauders
 'Cause if you get eaten, there's fees for your mourners
 Prosperity's there in the care of magnates
 In Halcyon, heaven awaits
 Did you think it was supposed to look like the poster?
 It mostly does, oh, if you'd only read closer
 Just ten short years to a new frontier
 Snooze as you cruise and you'll wake up here
 You've been trapped in that ship for an awful long time
 So perhaps you have simply forgot what you signed
 Oh, honestly, did you not read the colony policy
 That defines you as company property?
 That waivers your say in autonomy?
 The conglomerate's got you in lock and key
 We put the "dollar" back into "idolatry"
 If you're upset, you can rent an apology
 We are a family forged in bureaucracy
 No "I" in "team" but there's "con" in "economy"
 Were you expecting adventure? Were you hoping for fun?
 My friend, you're indentured
 And pleasure's exempt from your tenure
 So venture back down to your slum
 That's provided at generous prices
 Your worth is determined by your sacrifices
 A small term of service when down on the surface
 Internment's a freebie that comes with the purchase
 We work to earn the right to work
 To earn the right to work
 To earn the right to work
 To earn the right to work
 To earn the right to give
 Ourselves the right to buy
 Ourselves the right to live
 To earn the right to die
 Welcome to our little town, why don't you settle down?
 Here, just fill out the paperwork and you can look around
 We're happy as can be inside the valley cannery
 We live to pack the cans of meat
 And not to question where it's found
 Until we end up in the ground, around the corner in the yard
 You know, we thought we liked the sound of finding glory in the stars
 The board has taught us to be proud of never reaching very far
 So we earn what we're allowed and give it right back at the bar
 The ale to cure what ails ya
 Zero Gee Brew, your favourite flavour
 So work 'til you bleed, ennobled by labour
 Then purchase relief from your local retailer
 If you'd rather drop dead, that's fine
 But you know that dropping down dead bears a fine
 So you do your job and I'll do mine
 I gotta meet a six-foot deep bottom line
 We make a fortune for the board by selling boredom door to door
 Because it's all that we deserve, and it is all we can afford
 The secrets of the universe and all the worlds to be explored
 But our dreams are back on Earth and now the work is our reward
 And you'll be grateful for seats at the table
 Though it dips at one end and the bench is unstable
 You may waste your days, but at least you were able
 To pay off your grave since we leased you your cradle
 Be faithful and pray, we'll repay what you invest
 Behave as you slave for humanity's interest
 On account that you're all on account
 And we're quickly amounting humanity's interest
 You'd think that we'd sink to the brink of rebellion
 With markets dependent on peddling weapons
 The architect tells them the secret to heaven
 Is simply consuming whatever we sell them
 We work to earn the right to work
 To earn the right to work
 To earn the right to work
 To earn the right to work
 To earn the right to give ourselves the right to buy
 Ourselves the right to live to earn the right to die
 You should have read the fine print, my friend
 Should have read the fine print
 You should have read the fine print, my friend
 Should have read the fine print
 Welcome to our little town, why don't you settle down?
 Here, just fill out the paperwork and you can look around
 We work and then we work
 And then we work and then we work
 And then we work and then we work
 And then we end up in the ground
 Work, work, hurry, hurry
 Work, work, worry, worry
 Work, work, hurry, hurry
 Worry, hurry, work, work
 You should have read the fine print, my friend
 Should have read the fine print
 Here and here, and initial here
 Welcome to the family