Welcome, monday morning - spectres of the blue;
I’m sittin in my room with a basic view,
Dead-eyed saggy sky grinnin like a slut,
Tramp like wounded angel stiffens in the mud.
A man’s just faceless puppet in a dirty farce;
So I turn a TV on - and back nightmare comes.
CHORUS:
Razor blades of bills twisting on the floor,
Cause man, the more you give - the more you ever owe!
Shops who want your money,
Cops who want your money,
Banks who want your money - they’d skin you right alive.
They’ll skin you right alive!
TV-screen pours poison down to my veins.
Mister, come and carve it out of my brains:
All your glamour stories - those only good for pigs,
All your rotten promises and lies you feeding us
Hell-born advertisement, Gross and Net and crap,
All these loads of garbage that you call Advance.
Interest on mortgage - a man’s infernal trap,
Interest on loan.
Interest on interest.
Interest on life.
CHORUS:
Razor blades of bills bleeding on the floor,
Cause man, the more you give – the more you ever owe!
Banks who want your money,
Fat-cats who want your money,
Law cunts who want your money - they’d skin you right alive.
They’ll skin you right alive!
Bank hounds making zillions, gnawing at your soul.
Gov apes toll your future – a Governmental Toll!
Hypermarket donkeys,
Health insurance rats,
Corporate blood-suckers,
Military skunks.
I owe them house, garden, I owe them flesh and bones –
I owe them all my money - hundred generations forth,
I wonder if I owe them my children and my wife.
I wonder if I owe them my wishes and my dreams.
I owe them everything I got – they ripped me off my life.
Just ripped me off my life…
CHORUS:
Razor blades of bills burning on the floor,
Cause brother, the more you give – the more you ever owe!
Feds who want your money,
Banks who want your money,
Church who wants your money,
And God who wants your money:
Hail, Kingdom of Banknotes!
Hail and blessed be hunger – a corporate-made want!
Blessed be venal parliaments – hypocrisy and oath!
Blessed be all authorities, corrupt and omnipotent!
BE BLESSED!
A Man without Face;
BE BLESSED!
A Football-Head Race;
BE BLESSED!
A Bank’s Supreme Rip-off;
BE BLESSED!
A Limitation Rule;
BE BLESSED!
A Reverend Brainwash;
BE BLESSED!
A Sweetness of Control;
BE BLESSED!
A Nation dumb and foul;
BE BLESSED!
A Bribery Adept,
And the Whole World drawn in Debt -
BE BLESSED!
And so you pay and pay – yet they say, ya wrong - you don’t pay enough,
And you work and work – yet they say, ya wrong - you don’t work too hard,
And you try to breath and you try to love – but you’re always wrong cause
All you do is wrong,
And all you try is wrong,
And all you live is wrong -
And all they do is right!
Cause they are always right!
They eat you right alive!
Just eat you,
eat you,
eat you right alive!
CHORUS:
Razor blades of bills twisting on the floor,
Cause man, the more you give - the more you ever owe!
Razor blades of bills bleeding on the floor,
Cause man, the more you give - the more you ever owe!
Razor blades of bills burning on the floor,
Cause brother, the more you give - the more you ever owe!
Razor blades of bills,
Razor blades of bills,
Oh, razor blades of bills...
Feds who want your money,
And church who wants your money:
Hail, Kingdom of Banknotes!
And as this shiny world deludes and bites and stings,
I'll cut my tired veins with razor blades of bills -
and quietly sail away on sadness of my wings(...)
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