Verse 1

Steel gates slam, the locks click tight

They mark your name in black and white

Cold hands shuffle your life to file

Freedom buried in a bureaucrat’s smile

Pre-Chorus

Ink and chains, no blood, no proof

Tied up tight in a red tape noose

They brand your life, they choke your name

But paper walls can’t hold our flame

Chorus

Red tape noose — cut it clean!

Burn the files, break the machine

Red tape noose — hang their lies!

Freedom born where the silence dies

Verse 2

Case numbers scratch on your skin

Checkpoints waiting, you never win

But every cage they weld shut tight

Is just a spark to light our fight

Bridge (Breakdown)

Twist the rope, we twist it back

Tie their courts in panic black

They’ll drown in forms they used to bind

A paper flood, a rebel mind

Chorus (Gang Vocals)

Red tape noose — cut it clean!

Burn their files, break the machine

Red tape noose — hang their lies!

We’re the storm you can’t deny