Loaded Dice

We will have lived forgotten lives As those who didn't dare defy All these exploiting leeches But at least we're getting by Always afraid to rock the boat For coffee stains on our white shirts Cause the devil that we know Is the last one who converts Like the cogs in the machine we dare not break Blue knots around white-collared necks Our suits our modern straight jackets The calm but not the storm when we should rise And we're playing on with loaded dice This game was rigged from the beginning And still we play with open eyes Established thoughts are gripping like a vice We keep meeting raising bars Until we're proud of our demise To be replaced by another set of mice A hundred phones he has produced That he can't afford himself Knowing that 99 of those Will be rotting on a shelf She rose the ladder to the top Riding high on corporate greed Until a member of the board Gave her a note that she should leave Like the cogs in the machine we dare not break Blue knots around white-collared necks Our suits our modern straight jackets The calm but not the storm when we should rise And we're playing on with loaded dice This game was rigged from the beginning And still we play with open eyes Established thoughts are gripping like a vice We keep meeting raising bars Until we're proud of our demise To be replaced by another set of mice Should we still abide by rules we know aren't just? While the paint is slowly chipping of complacency and trust We take back the things we left behind us in the dust Remembering real values and let the old world rust But we're playing on with loaded dice This game was rigged from the beginning And still we play with open eyes Established thoughts are gripping like a vice We keep meeting raising bars Until we're proud of our demise To be replaced but still We're playing on with loaded dice This game was rigged from the beginning And still we play with open eyes Established thoughts are gripping like a vice We keep meeting raising bars Until we're proud of our demise To be replaced by another set of mice