I am Mr. Robot
Anxiety and fear clouds my mind
Working for a corrupt and capitalist company just for money
Seeing my psychiatrist and still feeling like I am a stranger to myself
Drugs and more drugs and no end
Invading people’s privacy just to feel close to someone
My computer screen speaks out but not to me
Loneliness carves itself into my skin
Memories of a distance yet close dark past
As a result I live in my cave, my apartment
Trying to hide from the men who follow me around
They follow me in the train and in the streets
They know my secrets they know what I am thinking
One day he, the man with the plan finds me
A stranger, at first, convinces me to follow him
He says he knows everything I do, my hacking
How he says he needs me to complete his mission
His name is Mr. Robot
He also sees what is wrong in the world
I try to persuade myself not to join Mr. Robot
However, my loneliness told me I needed to join him
The world is backward, do we ever get what we want
Or ever get what we need
Society is fucked up and has its people enslaved
Not physically, but trapped in our own minds
Alone quietly building up my invisible revolution with Mr. Robot
No one knows of our Revolution
Silently we as a team plot our future victory
A victory which only we can see because only we know
This is why I joined this revolution
To Fuck Society, literally screw it over
To free us from what controls the world, money
To stop corporations like E Corp
In the genius of my madness I have created a web
A web intertwined by thousands of hacked codes and security systems
To revenge the people who took my father from me
To make right what I see is wrong
But what I seem to see and feel today becomes someone else’s memories
I have become a strange to myself within the voices in my head
I inhibit the body of two people
I am Elliot, I am my father, I am Mr. Robot
Darkness and Shade
Politics governs our daily lives
We are told what to believe in by the media
The media keeps track of what we think
We separate ourselves by our personal choices
Choices that should not matter but do
From political opinions, income, to our sexual orientation
It seems like we purposely try to separate ourselves from one another
We will continue to live in violence and conflict until we realize that we are all equal
But of course equality cannot exist in today’s world because of who we are
We are as humans naturally compete with one another
Greed and power are today’s most addictive drugs
People are selfish and indifferent to other people
Who can break this indifference, this habit of giving the cold shoulder
I can tell you this is not happening anytime soon
Because we are conditioned to think only for ourselves and not of others