Karaoké The Fine Print The Stupendium

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 'cos 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 favorite flavor

So work 'till 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 'cos 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

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

Here and here and initial here

Welcome to the family