🎵 "The Mark in the Cradle"
Key of Em / Slow, solemn, minor chord progression

(Verse 1)
In a sterile room of silence, with a mother’s quiet cry,
They reached into the heavens with a barcode and a lie.
A paper oath was drafted, while the infant knew no name,
But the seal of Caesar branded him—a soul now entered shame.

(Chorus)
They placed a CHIP in the cradle, called it life, called it law,
A Collateralized Human, bound by fiction's claw.
Citizens Held in Pledge, by a pledge they never made,
Trading Eden’s breath of freedom for a future in the grave.

(Verse 2)
A microchip, a barcode, a contract on his skin,
The scroll of Mammon opened, and the soul was ushered in.
From pensioned death to mortgage debt, the course was cold and steep,
But no one told the child his soul had been sold so cheap.

(Bridge)
Oh but there’s a voice that whispers:
"Come out, My child, arise!
I bore the weight of legal debt, I paid your silent cries.
The tomb is bare, the stone is gone, the debt is laid to rest,
You are not a number, child, you are My Father's best."

(Chorus)
They placed a CHIP in the cradle, forged a name, forged a fate,
But Grace stands at the shoreline, shouting, “Child, don’t be too late!”
No passport to the Kingdom comes by oath or state decree—
Only by the Lamb once slain, who died to set you free.

(Outro)
So lay down the birth bond fiction, let the paper ashes fall,
Reject the mark of Mammon, heed the higher call.
The name they stamped is perished, but your spirit shall remain—
An heir of holy promise, reborn without the chain.