Verse 1

Haters gonna hate, but it makes the gears rotate
Money over humans got me dreamin' of a better place
From peasants' plates to heads of state we're tethered to the feta chase
Against each other brothers smother brothers just to catch a wage

Ain't it a shame, the way that it goes?
Seems like we're bein' encouraged just to step on those below
Yeah, grind your heel on those who need your hand the most
if you wanna bullshit over a champagne toast

And brag and boast about the currency you made,
just 'cause that's the way the game currently is played
You can scrape and claw, do anything to reach the top
Judged not by your character, but the money that you cop

I been waitin' patient for the other shoe to drop
but it seems our ugly system of greed's not fittin' to stop
In a capitalistic nation where we're led by corporations,
plagued with lower class frustration and upper class domination

Economic segregation and rampant deregulation,
haunted by the ghost of Reagan, never trickled down it stayed in
the top tier — miles and miles from 'round here
The unseen hand is on the lever, the poor are grease for the gears and I'm here

Chorus (x2)

I watch it all unfold, watch friends turn to foes for what used to be gold,
but now it's nothin' but some paper to fold,
yet it dominates our goals when we give it so much favor to hold

Verse 2

I don't spit crack — you'd only feel that a few minutes
tryin' to craft somethin' that lasts like perhaps some psylocybin
As the rhythm slips into me let it soak in and seep down into my sockets
Keeps my noggin' bobbin' just as steady as the clock ticks

Head like a moshpit full of cocked fists, headed home from the city of the stop-(and)-frisks
where cops kick in doors of people runnin' rock dens,
but stop kids who wanna protest illegal stock tips

but I guess that's just the way the cookie tends to shatter
when those who have the dough design the policies that matter
when police are on the market and the banks are in the biddin'
who you think can pay 'em better, corporations or the city?

When you're rentin' out cops with badges, tazers, and pistols
see how conflict of interest might become an issue?
could you misuse power vested in you
by the people, see what peaceful protestors have been through?

And you got hecka nerve, sayin' you protect and serve
when your paychecks owe a debt to our creditors
It gives some context to the Occupy backlash
It's a tricky web, no dot com or backslash

[Chorus (x2)]