Greed Lyrics

The system depends on your income

Your income depends on your wisdom

Your wisdom depends on a kid's Mum

Kid's Dad or a kid's guardian

To work hard enough to provide the smarts in them

To develop enough to give the chance that they need

Without this privilege their chances are lean

And yet, people are born who have more and we just brand them "elite"

And let them ransack the planet, give them palaces, please, it's called greed

When you've taken more than you need (that's greed)

And when others come you don't leave that's (greed)

You've got more than you'll ever see (that greed)

Keeps you at it cos you're just an addict for (greed)

When you've taken more than you need (that's greed)

And when others come you don't leave that's (greed)

You've got more than you'll ever see (that greed)

Keeps you at it cos you're just an addict for

"Success" as you call it, a touch less in your wallet

Could get the impoverished some steps to a mortgage

Bank debts get abolished we get to absorb it

Tax breaks for the frauds and back breaks the defrauded

Upset with the way the world is run? you should be

The top level revels in us grafting after duck feed

Clap for carers when they literally saved the country

And vote against them getting a fair wage this country loves greed

When you've taken more than you need (that's greed)

And when others come you don't leave that's (greed)

You've got more than you'll ever see (that greed)

Keeps you at it cos you're just an addict for (greed)

When you've taken more than you need (that's greed)

And when others come you don't leave that's (greed)

You've got more than you'll ever see (greed)

Keeps you at it cos you're just an addict for

Adding more zeroes, buying up the competition

Pricing out the market, saying you've got a vision

Appealing to the right wing, paying off politicians

They're turning a blind eye, now there's no opposition

They change accounts so everything's a saving now

In fact the tax evaded's an insane amount

No contributions to the country, company's safe and sound

If there's a crisis like a virus they make us bail 'em out

Man that's greed!

When you've taken more than you need (that's greed)

And when others come you don't leave that's (greed)

You've got more than you'll ever see (that greed)

Keeps you at it cos you're just an addict for (greed)

When you've taken more than you need (that's greed)

And when others come you don't leave that's (greed)

You've got more than you'll ever see (greed)

Keeps you at it cos you're just an addict for

Convenience culture, they keep feeding us bullshit

We make these billionaires and then treat 'em like sultans

"Oh but don't insult 'em, they're an example to all of us

If we work hard we can make the planet a ball of dust"

Of course we could, we're pretty much there, climate has changed

Look again in a few years, you will find it's the same

Species dying in waves cos we want to buy it today

So get your Prime delivery in time for the end of days

Thanks to greed

When you've taken more than you need (greed)

And when others come you don't leave that's (greed)

You've got more than you'll ever see (greed)

Keeps you at it cos you're just an addict for (greed)

When you've taken more than you need (greed)

And when others come you don't leave that's (greed)

You've got more than you'll ever see (greed)

Keeps you at it cos you're just an addict for

Capitalism, they got us trapped in a system

We could vote our way out but they've mastered division

Got you hating your neighbour, but loving master's decision

Got you feeling lonely when you've a valid opinion

The right wing succeeds cos it's fast and efficient

While the left are arguing over what fascism isn't

Meanwhile we're working so hard we barely have an existence

And given the chance to change there's a massive indifference towards greed

When you've taken more than you need (that's greed)

And when others come you don't leave that's (greed)

You've got more than you'll ever see (that greed)

Keeps you at it cos you're just an addict for (greed)

When you've taken more than you need (that's greed)

And when others come you don't leave that's (greed)

You've got more than you'll ever see (greed)

Keeps you at it cos you're just an addict for greed