They Robbed Us Blind [Remix]

[Verse 1] Marble halls and golden doors

While they count their stolen scores

Bureaucrats in tailored suits

Selling lies like cheap recruits

Behind closed doors the deals are made

Democracy's been getting played

Money flows like poison streams

Through the district of their schemes

[Chorus] They rob us blind (We see you now)

Legal theft in broad daylight (Can't hide it now)

Their pockets lined (We see you now)

While the people lose the fight (Won't take it now)

[Verse 2] Budget bloat and backroom deals

Watch them spin their crooked wheels

Empty words and broken vows

Fat cats feeding sacred cows

Power brokers pulling strings

Bought and sold like diamond rings

Deficit's a feeding ground

For the vultures circling round

[Chorus] They rob us blind (We see you now)

Legal theft in broad daylight (Can't hide it now)

Their pockets lined (We see you now)

While the people lose the fight (Won't take it now)

[Bridge] System rigged from left to right

Drowning in their appetite

Dollar signs in dead men's eyes

Truth dissolves in corporate lies

(Break it down, break it down)

(Tear it up from underground)

[Chorus] They rob us blind (We see you now)

Legal theft in broad daylight (Can't hide it now)

Their pockets lined (We see you now)

While the people lose the fight (Won't take it now)

[Outro] Watch them burn their house of cards

As we tear their world apart

It's time to make a stand

Rising up across these lands

[Final Chorus] They rob us blind (We see you now)

Legal theft in broad daylight (Can't hide it now)

Their pockets

[Verse 3] Now the suits are sweating cold

Little secrets getting sold

Every ledger tells a tale

Every loophole leaves a trail

Paper trails they tried to shred

Lobbyists inside my head

Taxes dodged and books cooked twice

Somebody gon' pay the price

[Pre-Chorus] Feel it building in the street

Feel the rumble underneath

Every neighbor, every town

We ain't backing down

[Chorus] They rob us blind (We see you now)

Legal theft in broad daylight (Can't hide it now)

Their pockets lined (We see you now)

While the people lose the fight (Won't take it now)

[Post-Chorus] Hey, ho, watch it go

Hey, ho, let 'em know

Hey, ho, watch it go

Hey, ho, let 'em know

[Verse 4] Picket signs and union calls

Chalk lines running down the walls

Senators on speakerphone

Acting like we didn't know

Farmers, teachers, nurses too

Every unpaid IOU

Cash the check they never wrote

Send it back and watch 'em choke

[Chorus] They rob us blind (We see you now)

Legal theft in broad daylight (Can't hide it now)

Their pockets lined (We see you now)

While the people lose the fight (Won't take it now)

[Guitar Solo] [Bridge 2] Accounts they can't explain

Shell companies in Spain

Offshore, out of reach

But the people always preach

(Turn it up, turn it up)

(Fill the streets, fill the cup)

[Verse 5] Grandmas with their fists in the air

College kids who cut their hair

Dock workers and bodega men

Everybody's counting ten

From the boroughs to the bay

January to May

Ain't no marble thick enough

To hold back a rising up

[Breakdown] One voice (One voice)

Two hands (Two hands)

A million strong across the land

One voice (One voice)

Two hands (Two hands)

A million strong across the land

[Chorus] They rob us blind (We see you now)

Legal theft in broad daylight (Can't hide it now)

Their pockets lined (We see you now)

While the people lose the fight (Won't take it now)

[Post-Chorus] Hey, ho, watch it go

Hey, ho, let 'em know

Hey, ho, watch it go

Hey, ho, let 'em know

[Outro] Bar the doors and lock the gate

We already know your fate

Count it out in pounds and cents

Every dollar they spent

When the morning comes around

We'll be standing on the ground

Sing it loud and sing it twice

Ain't no going back tonight

[Final Chorus] They rob us blind (We see you now)

Legal theft in broad daylight (Can't hide it now)

Their pockets lined (We see you now)

While the people lose the fight (Won't take it now)