Scattered - YTCracker

Home from work to an open front door

Belongings scattered all along the floor

Did I get robbed?

Better check what’s gone

The drawers pulled out televisions on

Chairs tipped over and tables flipped

The lamps broken and the couch is ripped

Knick knacks once stacked sit strewn along

The tile and files collect in messy piles

See a single sheet of paper with a emblem

Amongst the bedlam on the door to my bedroom

Looks official — notarized

I surmise this letter comes from «the good guys»

But why?

I ain’t done dirt in months

I gave the game away to keep these stunts

Away from me away from her away from us

Thought my past was ash and dust

Read it closer it seems contention

Isn’t with me — not even mentioned

It seems my girls been being sneaky

Downloading new episodes of shows weekly

From channels that we don’t pay for so now

The FBT came and shut her down

But prison time and jail for some shows?

Seems farfetched but that’s how it goes

Who hasn’t downloaded a photo?

An album?

Anime from Kyoto?

That you shouldn’t have — games, apps up for grabs

On the internet: zips, tars, rars and cabs

Does it even feel like stealin'

When youre only two clicks away from straight peeling

Anything your heart desires any format

Through these wires and right past your doormat?

I must admit it’s a bit

Impersonal to receive or transmit

The human beings behind the screens

Dehumanized by these new machines

Naked celebrities for the taking

Pilfered by dubious means for news making

Or an artists brand new creation

Stolen and get no compensation

Where’s the line drawn?

Bad intentions?

When you share those files on high-speed connections?

When you target innocent users

By stealing files off their home computers?

What about cracking corporations

Or infiltrating uplinked nations?

Don’t have to argue what’s legal

But not all crimes created equal

Scattered on the floor

Papers disks and drawers

All of the things

Notes up on the door

Government at war

Pulling the strings

A brave new world where every action

Shared amongst those control what’s happening

Arbitrarily enforce the rules

Armed with the best surveillance tools

And you can’t catch terrorists or kill tyrants

Just drug busts and software pirates

Seems like a waste of the greatest net

Cast over the oceans deepest depths

Cuz in this game can’t tell combatants

From all the civilians in private practice

Easy to frame control or contain

With the narrative beaming to your brain

Through fear uncertainty it’s no doubt

Why we need protections rolled out

Or so says the powers that be profusely

Convinced every criminal fierce as Bruce Lee

Truth is everyone has potential

To be subversive, crack and go mental

So they keep all that data central

And say its safety-essential

Some see this hypocrisy and do nothing

Slacktivists move wrists and click buttons

Get behind a cause to change the laws

But don’t have all the brains or half the balls

Some soldiers who sit behind the walls

Of prison risked their lives for vision

Sacrificed themselves in position

To fight this inquisition

But the casualties of guilt admission

Are never to be forgiven

And casualties like my girl in contrition

Still a welcome addition