The Promise and the Price

**Verse 1**
They call it socialism, say it’s fair for everyone,
A promise that tomorrow takes the weight off what you’ve done.
And when it sounds like something simple, all injustice solved for free,
Ask yourself what has to change before that promise comes to be.

**Verse 2**
It starts with good intentions then a list of who to hate,
A belief we’d all be better off with an administrative state.
Don’t worry about a thing cause they’l be make’n all the rules
It’s equity for all as long as we jump through all their hoops

**Chorus** [Crowd sings along]
Bernie Bro’s and A O C, can KINDLY KISS MY ASS!,
Socialism never worked, it’s been proven in the past.
And freedom isn’t lost at once—it’s slowly took away,
Till we wake up looking backward at the price we had to pay.

**Verse 3**
When the money runs out, from taxing all the rich
slowly they’ll add structure where our choices used to live,
Till permission starts to matter more than what you want to do,
And the system starts deciding what is valid and best for you.

**Chorus** [Crowd cheers and sings along]
‘Cause socialism has a price seldom mentioned at the start,
Their road that sounds so easy asks for one more missing part.
And freedom isn’t lost at once—it’s slowly took away,
Till we wake up looking backward at the price we had to pay.

**Verse 4**
Don’t believe all this inequity just because it’s said out loud,
Power never stops existing from wear’n a different crowd.
And when costs begin to surface, we won’t know where or when,
That’s when rules grow hard as iron where they once were paper thin.

**Final Chorus** [Crowd cheers and sings along]
Bernie Bro’s and A O C, can KINDLY KISS MY ASS!,
Socialism never worked, it’s been proven in the past.
And freedom isn’t lost at once—it’s slowly took away,
Till we wake up looking backward at the price we had to pay.

One more time!!

[Crowd cheers and sings along]
Bernie Bro’s and A O C, can KINDLY KISS MY ASS!,
Socialism never worked, it’s been proven in the past.
And freedom isn’t lost at once—it’s slowly took away,

**Outro**
Till we wake up looking backward at the price we had to pay.