The Bottom Line

Verse 1

Gold grease

Slides through fat fingers

Deep down in the polished marble lobby

Paper thin promises

Printed on the backs of your brothers

Selling skin

For a fraction of the value

Treading water while the tide turns cold

Chorus

Drain the vein of every dollar

Build the tower higher than the sky

Hollow men with heavy wallets

Watch the bottom line as people die

Bleeding dry

Bleeding dry

Watch it die

Post-Chorus

Lies and leverage

Buy the leverage

More for the machine

Verse 2

Stifled screams

Wrapped in plastic

Locked away in the velvet storage bins

Systematic

Stifling

Small seeds trampled by the heavy leather boot

Iron ink

Staining the record of our lives

Profit margin

Buried under layers of the bitter soot

Chorus

Drain the vein of every dollar

Build the tower higher than the sky

Hollow men with heavy wallets

Watch the bottom line as people die

Bleeding dry

Bleeding dry

Watch it die

Bridge

Cut the throat of the future

Burn the bridges to the past

Salt the earth

Keep the cash

Feed the monster

Forget the math

Endless hunger

Nothing's left

Endless hunger

The cold theft

Guitar Solo

Chorus

Drain the vein of every dollar

Build the tower higher than the sky

Hollow men with heavy wallets

Watch the bottom line as people die

Bleeding dry

Bleeding dry

Watch it die

Outro

Counting pennies in a wasteland

Filing claims on a sinking ship

Burn the files

Walk away

Burn the files

Watch the fire