Paper Mill Ghosts Video (MV)

[Intro]
Ghost towns and broken dreams
Where paper mills once stood supreme
My old man's hands tell stories these suits won't understand
F*ck your efficiency schemes

[Verse 1]
Walking through the ruins of that UPM grave
Where daddy's sweat and blood built what automation gave
To shareholders in Helsinki, counting profits day by day
While families in the valley learned new ways to be brave
Twenty years of loyalty turned to scrap overnight
Corporate vampires sucking life out of our lives
"Innovation's coming," that's what all the banners say
But innovation's just a fancy word for throwing lives away

[Chorus]
They killed our future with a PowerPoint display
Turned flesh and bone to ones and zeros anyway
Progress ain't progress when it breaks your father's pride
These Silicon Valley f*ckers took us for a ride

[Verse 2]
Remember when the mill whistle meant something real?
Now it's all algorithms deciding how to steal
Your dignity, your purpose, wrap it up in corporate speak
While some tech bro in a Tesla claims the future's looking sleek
My father's generation, obsolete at fifty-three
Their crime was being human in this new economy
They talk about disruption like it's something to admire
But all I see is ashes in this digital fire

[Bridge]
Factory floors empty, machines hum alone
Cold metal heartbeat, rust and chrome
Every spreadsheet decision kills another home
But hey, the stock price rose, that's all they've shown

[Verse 3]
Now they're selling us salvation through a shiny screen
While working-class communities dissolve like bad dreams
Optimizing everything except humanity
Trading soul for silicon, that's their reality
So pour one out for paper mills and analog days
When human hands built things in human ways
Before they streamlined hope right out the f*cking door
And left us all like products no one needs anymore

[Outro]
Ghost towns and broken dreams
Where paper mills once stood supreme
My old man's hands tell stories these suits won't understand
F*ck your efficiency schemes