In the 99

Am I
 Am I
 Am I the one to praise?
 Collide with faces veiled in paper
 Reading line by line the pain there
 But for the grace of code and capital
 We'd cry out side by side
 So why
 Oh why
 Why am I the one to praise?
 Calculate the Ponzi pension to avoid
 Unintended consequences of a choice
 Now am I so confident I am the one
 Earning every pretty sum and deserving every toy
 Am I selling broken bonds or innovation
 Someone's yelling get a job out of a Lincoln
 But the human microphone will find a voice
 And a change is gonna come, said the signal to the—
 Remind me in my western chamber
 What this plan's designed to save here
 I haven't come to say I'm sorry
 But I swear I'm on your side
 Oh I
 Oh I
 I am not the one who preys
 Betting on the best semesters you can buy
 Digging out of debt, sequestered, unemployed
 Underwater empty nesters in a slum
 Television for the bums, helicopter for the boys
 Marketplace of multi-culti competition
 Building out the fossil fracking operation
 Careful of a bird blacker than a swan
 'Cause a change is gonna come, said the signal to the noise
 Were you never in the 99?
 You are ever in the 99
 We are ever in the 99
 We are ever in the 99
 Am I
 Am I
 Am I the one to praise?
 Collide with faces veiled in paper
 Reading line by line the pain there
 I haven't come to say I'm sorry
 But I swear I'm on your side
 We are ever in the 99