Woke up to a headline
On my cracked glass screen
The craziest deal
That the world's ever seen
They're trading the ice like a Monopoly board
Building a base for a golden overlord
While I'm counting quarters for a bag of rice
He's checking the tags on the Arctic ice
Stars and stripes on a frozen shore
Tell me, what are we buying it for?
The world is melting, the ink is dry
And I can't even pay for the sky
Oh, Greenland Blue, cold and wide
Nowhere for a working soul to hide
We're buying up the north
Buying up the snow
But I got nowhere left to go
Yeah, it's a grand design
A manifest fate
But I'm just trying to pay my freight
In the Greenland Blue
Manifest Destiny 20
Real estate dreams in the ten below
A tactical move for the lithium mines
While I'm reading
Through the eviction lines
They say it's for defense
They say it's for the win
But the walls of my apartment
Are getting paper thin
Stars and stripes on a frozen shore
Tell me, what are we buying it for?
The world is melting, the ink is dry
And I can't even pay for the sky
Oh, Greenland Blue, cold and wide
Nowhere for a working soul to hide
We're buying up the north
Buying up the snow
But I got nowhere left to go
Yeah, it's a grand design
A manifest fate
But I'm just trying to pay my freight
In the Greenland Blue
Buy the glaciers!
Buy the wind!
The madness starts
Where the map begins!
Is it a bargain?
Is it a joke?
The empire's rich
But the kids are broke!
Oh, Greenland Blue, cold and wide
Nowhere for a working soul to hide
We're buying up the north
Buying up the snow
But I got nowhere left to go
Yeah, it's a grand design, a manifest fate
But I'm just trying to pay my freight
In the Greenland Blue
Cold, cold blue
Just put it on the national tab