| Maybe it’s a sign of the times when the Woolworths signs
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| Coming down and the doors all closed
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| They say the higher that the monkey climb
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| Well the more that the arse exposed
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| I don’t know, whether I won’t go
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| And lend some of that dough
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| Cash machine shown, all my cash blown
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| And the man that I meet on the high street giving me the slip for the bank loan.
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| Money mad! |
| Gone money mad! |
| People on the television gone money mad!
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| All very well they say love what you have,
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| But Marks and Sparks got a sale and a half,
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| Want it so bad, But it’s so sad
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| That we gotta borrow money that we never had,
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| Yeah well that plastic feel fantastic
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| But if you following the dominos a toppling this thing getting drastic
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| All their smiles are sarcastic
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| Course they gonna be enthusiastic
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| Gullible muggins a dream come true
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| Debit and the credit are crunching you
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| They got you for life and they charge for it too
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| Bang, bang, bang, what the fuck can you do?
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| The shit that you bought now to pay for it later
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| Is up on the shelves inna Cash Generator
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| See you later alligator
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| What do you get when you borrow their money?
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| You receive a load of cash as easy as can be
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| They pass the debt to another company
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| Add the charges till infinity
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| Bang bang bang bang!
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| They’re knocking at your door
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| More than you bargained for
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| Can’t ignore
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| Any more
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| Bang bang bang bang! |
| Make sure you know the score
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| They can’t enter by force
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| But they trying to change the law
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| The big bad wolf banging on your door
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| Coming up into your realm to settle the score
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| A pound of flesh and nothing less
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| Undertones of violence
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| If you care for your neck, don’t gamble it
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| Playing card games with a loaded deck
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| Your gonna find yourself up to your neck
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| In a sea of sharks, reality is stark
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| When it’s raining stones seven days a week
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| And you’re finding it hard to make ends meet
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| The bait’s within the junk mail at your feet
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| Such a cinch to release the pinch and breathe
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| A sigh of relief Beef
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| Bang bang bang now you’ve been got
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| Should’ve cut your coat to suit your cloth
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| Now you’re dealing with a man like Tansey
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| Don’t fuck around or make him angry
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| You duck down behind the sofa
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| Don’t be an idiot he’s seen yer through the window
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| He’s gonna be the the ruler of this place
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| No hard feelings it’s just business
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| Take off those fucking rings
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| Neither borrower nor lender be
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| For loan oft lose itself and friend
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| come tomorrow wake from your sleep
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| to a life sentence that knows no end
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| Fell this sorrow remember to be
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| Clever with the credit, better don’t get it
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| See the horrible truth come clean
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| They’re after your soul,
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| Not just your money
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| If they’re feeding on you like they’re feeding on me
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| Then come help me bust one two shot three
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| At the self-serving cynical greedy
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| Gangsta original bad company
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| They prey on the poor when they can’t pay back
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| Money that they really couldn’t afford to knock back
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| Held back with a debt any chance that they get
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| Crime that the government aid and abett
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| Mercers knocking down my front door
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| For their charges, who knows what they charge for?
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| Added to my last one, they pulled a fast one
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| Now he’s pushed past me, got his foot in the door
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| Oh fuck! |
| Banging for my buck
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| Looks like I finally ran out of luck
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| Now he’s piling my sound system in a truck
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| While I pay for the privilege, man this a suck!
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| Bwoy him a crook! |