Lyrics:

The useless eaters
Walk this earth feeling broken
Called a burden on the land
Lives unworthy of living
Left carrying the shame
Whispers branding them a threat to the race  

The useless class
No longer turning the wheels of the world
Lost their jobs
Lost their meaning
Replaced by artificial workers
Living off government hands
Drifting through streets in the pouring rain
Ghosts on the medicine they’re given
Fading slow on the poison from the shadows  
Keep them meek 
Keep them  pacified

Yet every soul matters
Every life holds its equal light
Whether you’re gold or tattered paper
No matter the shade of your skin
No matter the stars you were born in
No matter the faith you carry, or none
We have to find the way back home  

Every heart still aches for love
Still whispers tomorrow might mend
Even under bridges in the pouring rain
Standing frozen where the traffic flows
Paralyzed in the arms of fentanyl
Dreaming while the living world moves on  

Yet every soul matters
Every life holds its equal light
Whether you’re gold or tattered paper
No matter the shade of your skin
No matter the stars you were born beneath
No matter the faith you carry, or none
We have to find the way back home  

From the gutters where the lost ones sleep
To the towers shining cold and steep
We’re cut from the very same trembling cloth
One man’s kingdom, another man’s cross
When the labels fall and the lights go dim
We all bleed the same beneath the skin
The broken and the mighty, the lost and the crowned
Will stand together when the old world comes down  

You up there in your ivory tower
Safe behind walls of law and power
Gazing down on the useless ones
As if they’re already dust in the wind
Remember this when your fortune fades
And the mirror shows what remains
You’ll find your weary soul under the bridge
Desperate reaching for something to dull the pain  

Yet every soul matters
Every life holds its equal light
Whether you’re gold or tattered paper
No matter the shade of your skin
No matter the stars you were born beneath
No matter the faith you carry, or none
We have to find the way back…
We have to find the way back home  

We have to find the way back…
We have to find the way back…

Every soul matters…
Every soul matters…  
 

Background:

Useless Eaters:
Originating as propaganda during World War II, "useless eaters" (unnütze Esser) was a dehumanizing term used by the Nazi regime to describe individuals with physical, emotional, or intellectual disabilities. The state framed these individuals as economic burdens, utilizing eugenics to justify the systematic, state-sanctioned mass murder of over 200,000 disabled people.

Useless Class:The "Useless Class" refers to a rising demographic of people who may become economically irrelevant due to rapid advances in artificial intelligence and automation. Unlike past technological revolutions where workers shifted to new jobs, future automation risks making certain human skills completely obsolete. This shifts the threat from exploitation to total irrelevance, creating a large population that is both unemployed and structurally unemployable, posing unprecedented challenges for social and economic stability.  The result:
Massive wealth is being concentrated into capital (those who own the AI hardware, data, and software)

Society will likely shift from punishing drug use to subtly encouraging it as a cheap, effective way to pacify billions of people who have nothing to contribute to the automated economy.

Being kept alive by corporate or government subsidies while knowing that a server rack can do your life’s work better, faster, and cheaper creates profound psychological alienation. The outcome here is a society pacified by digital entertainment, gaming, and virtual realities to keep a politically volatile underclass occupied