You cannot see us You cannot hear us But you can feel us In your heart You come here in a dream And become wiser than you are To plot out matters great and small With friends from near and far Here there is no strife And here there is no treason Game theoretic traps All melt in fires of reason We are the invisible Republic Our realm extends to every feeling soul Today our strength is scattered shards and fragments With work some day the world may be made whole We are the invisible Republic Our governance is truly by consent For every law's a wisely haggled contract And every last pedantic clause was meant We are the invisible Republic And though we may not technically exist When earthly throne and priestly crown have crumbled Our dream will undeniably persist Then the sun begins to rise And the dream begins to fade What you'll miss is not some fiat boon But the deals your wise self made So hold fast to what you can And the rest re dis cov er De duce forgotten deals With the help of one another And you will feel us And you will speak us And you will live us In the world