| The lurches
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| It moves in fits and starts
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| What it touches it hurts
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| It’s made of the worstest parts
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| Of our language our soul our thirst our wants
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| It’s with our deepest greediest dreams
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| That it taunts us keeps us reaching
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| 'til we’re off balance sprawling
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| Like the stock market
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| More than once sucker punch it gives nothing
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| Yet takes all without a front
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| Fashion oil sweat blood guts and guns
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| Stars and Stripes all of the colors run white
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| Put your finger on the button it’ll be your last kiss goodnight
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| You can’t fight what you can’t see
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| Its heart pumps behind closed doors
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| Power and money it’s yours
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| It’s exactly what you voted for
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| Of course you only had two choices
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| And they were both
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| Now every aspect of your life feels its blunt force
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| You’re pinned back against the wall with no recourse
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| The Beast goes unchecked like the worldwide debt
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| Yes The rich get richer no sweat
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| All of us they try to downpress
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| We the people ain’t done yet
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| No
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| The Beast goes unchecked like the worldwide debt
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| Yes The rich get richer no sweat
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| All of us they try to downpress
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| We the people ain’t done yet
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| No
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| Moves at the speed of the rolling clouds
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| Like a beautiful woman in a flowing gown
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| Enveloping everything like woollen shroud
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| Then tightens like a python holding a mouse
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| Gradually your pulse starts slowing down
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| 'til your limbs feel cold and frozen now
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| Your whole body system broken down
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| Til the lights go off like a haunted house
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| Greed is an affliction
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| Greed is a disease
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| Greed is an addiction
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| Greed is a tease
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| Greed is a sweet tooth it can’t be appeased
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| Greed needs attention
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| Greed is a beast
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| Greed is the belief that our need for things
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| Completely supersedes all the things we need
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| We can’t see the enemy we’re fighting against
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| We just feel the pain and the side effects
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| We just feel the drain and the siphon’ing
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| Of our souls we sell for the the price of sin
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| Oil. |
| Gold. |
| A pint of flesh
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| All legal tenders in the times we live
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| Greed wreaks havoc on the lives of men
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| While angels we’ve
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| Greed makes masses a plunderous lot
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| Greed is a trait we’ve come to honor
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| The Beast goes unchecked like the worldwide debt
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| Yes The rich get richer no sweat
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| All of us they try to downpress
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| We the people ain’t done yet
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| No
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| The Beast goes unchecked like the worldwide debt
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| Yes The rich get richer no sweat
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| All of us they try to downpress
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| We the people ain’t done yet
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| No
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| The Beast
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