Universal Currency

[Verse 1]
What’s a child worth on the sheet?
Not enough to skip elite.
Line item, bolded, clean,
$109k, no in-between.

[Verse 2]
They die in heat, they drown in flood…
While suits debate the cost of blood.
They say “don’t politicize the pain”,
But budgets got a dollar sign for shame.

[Chorus]
Children are the currency,
And decency’s the rate.
But y’all keep trading futures
For fear, and war, and hate.
What do they cost, in flesh and soul?
And how the hell did we get this cold?

[Verse 3]
A child in Ohio, a girl in the rain,
Died while you argued about campaign gain.
You priced their breath and called it fair…
As if love could balance a billionaire.

[Bridge]
Empathy ain’t weak, it’s wealth.
It’s everything you kill by stealth.

[Chorus]
Children are the currency,
And we’re bankrupt on the heart.
When budgets trump their little lives,
We’ve torn the world apart.
What are they worth? You tell me straight.
Before it’s all too damn late.

[Outro]
This ain’t about right or left.
It’s about what the soul has left.