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From everything that you search

To everything that you see

From all of the people you covet

To the ones you swear you'll never be

To where you place your attention

Whether from detest or desire

After all a cruel misdirection

Is only fuel for the fire

From the way you spend your money

To where you spend your time

From the things you'd blow all your savings

To the ones you won't spend a dime

It's the fancy things that you crave

And all of the food you require

It's all of the data that drives you

To reach the life you aspire

It's where you scroll with your finger

And where you look with your eye

It's the things you own that are useless

And the things that you've yet to buy

It's the things you bookmark in secret

God forbid the world should see

So long as you can perceive it

After all it's all that they need

From all the things that you've purchased

To everything you've returned

An inference of what you've made so far

And a guess to what you will earn

It's a look inside if you body

Better yet into your mind

After all the data that drives you

Is of more value than time

It's a look at how you've been voting

Or if you've been voting at all

If you wish the system should topple

Or if it's you who will make it fall

It's a peak at who you've been seeing

And who you've rejected and why

An assessment of your well being

And a guess to when you're gonna die

From whether you'll be successful

And how you'll flourish or fail

To if you're deserving of freedom

Or to waste away inside a jail

And through all our suffering and smiling

They gather more by the day

Everything is built on our data

And we simply give it away