"All aboard," cried the leaders
"All aboard," cried the dealers
"Not so fast," whispered the wilderness
"All aboard," cried the bankers
"All aboard," cried the anchors
"Think again," whispered the wilderness
What starts wrong will end wrong
Latest twist on an old song
Train rolled on
Until the coal was gone
Train rolled on
Stalled in a deadly dawn
The last of the capital class
Took off for Mars
Never made it past the moon
Could not resist
Yet another techno fix
Kevlar walls and super guns
Factory-shiny in the sun
This is what they thought of you
This is what they thought of you
What starts wrong will end wrong
Latest twist on an old song
Train rolled on
Until the coal was gone
Train rolled on
Stalled in a deadly dawn
The light in the silicon night
Flickered and died
Virtual pride erased
Binary code
Isolation overload
To enslave the dispossessed
Was the best way to invest
This is what they thought of you
This is what they thought of you
What starts wrong will end wrong
Latest twist on an old song
Train rolled on
Until the coal was gone
Train rolled on
Stalled in a deadly dawn
© 2014 John Newlands and Rachael Charbonneau
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