**Capital's Eternal Undertow**

american primitivism 2-step, griot reggae · 4:08

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Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Nick Land saw the writing on the wall
Capital flows like lava, consuming all
Nineteen ninety-four, he wrote of crash and burn
When markets melt the future, there's no return
Acceleration spirals out of control
Technology devours the human soul

[Chorus]
The future's lost, it melts away
In capital's eternal play
No tomorrow, just the flow
Of money's endless undertow
The future's lost, we can't escape
This cybernetic landscape

[Verse 2]
Wark speaks of molecules in motion red
The climate crisis fills us all with dread
Nature's labor hidden from our view
But capital extracts what it can use
The future burns in fossil fuel desire
While we dance around the dying fire

[Chorus]
The future's lost, it melts away
In capital's eternal play
No tomorrow, just the flow
Of money's endless undertow
The future's lost, we can't escape
This cybernetic landscape

[Bridge]
But Bastani dreams of luxury for all
Automation breaks the market's wall
Solar panels gleam and robots work
While humans rest where algorithms lurk
Maybe technology can set us free
From scarcity's old tyranny

[Verse 3]
Three visions of tomorrow's fading light
Land sees chaos, Wark sees climate fight
Bastani hopes for automated bliss
But all agree we're standing at abyss
The supplements reveal what we have lost
The future sold, but what's the cost?

[Chorus]
The future's lost, it melts away
In capital's eternal play
No tomorrow, just the flow
Of money's endless undertow
The future's lost, we can't escape
This cybernetic landscape

[Outro]
Read the supplements to understand
How we lost the future's promised land
Land and Wark and Bastani show
Where tomorrow used to go

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