Shadowlands

Down in the shadowlands,
You get beat down with an invisible hand.
A pinball with a soul,
Mistreated more than a tax loophole,
Here in the shadowlands,
In the shadowlands.

I’m rarely in control,
The admin’s such a rigmarole.
Terms are conditional,
Exploitation is traditional,
Here in your homeland.
In your homeland.

This better be enough.
Scraps falling from above.
Left in a land lost in a fantasy.
Lost in a land left behind by reality.

I ain’t getting anywhere,
An NPC for a billionaire.
Dreams, hopes and ambition,
The holy trinity of sedition,
Inside a wasteland.
Inside a wasteland.

Down in the shadowlands,
The sun sets on mythical uplands.
Mired in the past,
Dark, satanic minds watch shadows cast,
Over a pleasant land.
Was a pleasant land.