Systemic rot (Extended 1)

Drop

They watch you

They watch you

Verse 1

Silver screen snakes slide through the marble hall

Suit and tie killers hiding

Red ink stains on the bill you signed

Total theft

Pre-Chorus

Look at the vault

Look at the cage

Look at the monster standing on stage

Chorus

Tax dollars pay for the secret sins

They feed the wolves while the nightmare wins

High office walls hide the sick and the cruel

Protecting the predators keeping the rule

Keeping the rule

Keeping the rule

Drop

Keeping the rule

Keeping the rule

Verse 2

Pocketing the change from a working man

Laundering the debt

Bargain deals made for a monster soul

Justice sold cheap

Pre-Chorus

Look at the vault

Look at the cage

Look at the monster standing on stage

Chorus

Tax dollars pay for the secret sins

They feed the wolves while the nightmare wins

High office walls hide the sick and the cruel

Protecting the predators keeping the rule

Keeping the rule

Keeping the rule

Bridge

Burn the files

Burn the trust

Burn it down

Silence bought with a bloody hand

Broken laws in a broken land

Chorus

Tax dollars pay for the secret sins

They feed the wolves while the nightmare wins

High office walls hide the sick and the cruel

Protecting the predators keeping the rule

Keeping the rule

Keeping the rule

Drop

Keeping the rule

Keeping the rule

Verse 3

Audit the pulse of a dying state

Printing more paper to feed the hate

They overlook the scars on the youth

Just to bury the weight of the truth

Account numbers swell while the hungry wait

Locking the padlock on the garden gate

Pre-Chorus

Look at the vault

Look at the cage

Look at the monster standing on stage

Chorus

Tax dollars pay for the secret sins

They feed the wolves while the nightmare wins

High office walls hide the sick and the cruel

Protecting the predators keeping the rule

Keeping the rule

Keeping the rule

Drop

They protect their own

F-f-f-feed the beast

Verse 4

Legislating darkness under cover of night

Stripping the wallet and killing the light

The jet flies east to a private sand

The worst of the world at their command

Taking your wage for a velvet lie

While they let the innocent shrivel and die

Bridge 2

No more excuses

No more blind eyes

Tear back the curtain

Expose the ties

They bank the profit

They hide the crime

You pay the interest

They kill the time

Guitar Solo

Breakdown

Launder the money

Hide the face

Burn the records

No more trace

THIEVES

MONSTERS

WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE

Chorus

Tax dollars pay for the secret sins

They feed the wolves while the nightmare wins

High office walls hide the sick and the cruel

Protecting the predators keeping the rule

Keeping the rule

Keeping the rule

Drop

Keeping the rule

Keeping the rule

Keeping the rule

Die

Outro

Balance the ledger with a pound of flesh

Tangled inside of the legal mesh

Our gold in their pockets

Our kids in their sights

Sleep through the horror of the federal nights

(They're watching)

(They're taking)

(Everything)

Empty

It is all empty

Go