Ramshackle Lyrics

Every rat can make a mountain

From a moldy hill of beans

It's the currency that counts

You don't get much exchangin' dreams

Keep an ace of every kind

Inside your snagged and tattered sleeves

Don't get caught and don't get cocky

Know your cues to stand and leave

Those suits they make for leeches

Always fit as slick as oil

But the silkworm ain't the feature

It's just sittin' in the boil

That parasite's a bastard

Full of stolen blood and lies

But the maggot gets the last laugh

When it's dinner for the flies

We're all ramshackle, it's a ransack

And I'll be damned if I work for free

I gotta haul ass for a boss cat

Who's gonna break my back for me

We're all ramshackle, if you glance back

It's all the same since the age began

So if you want more than what you fought for

You better settle up and pay the Man

The maggots rise with many eyes

And wings like morning sun

Rebuke the leeches' lies

And warn of judgment days to come

Oh hell hath ample fury

From the devil's smoking gun

But when heaven's loose on earth

Well, it's a damn nice day to run

The townfolk turn to fly

But old Jehovah isn't done

He says, the Rich can have the good life

But the Poor can have some fun

He blasts them down to ashes

Then he grinds them into dust

Then he shakes em all to atoms

Then he smites em just because

We're all ramshackle, it's a ransack

And I'll be damned if I work for free

I gotta haul ass for a boss cat

Who's gonna break my back for me

We're all ramshackle, if you glance back

It's all the same since the age began

So if you want more than what you fought for

You better settle up and pay the Man

Every scrap is taught the cycle

From the dustbin to the grave

You may live for what you die from

No one's ever truly saved

If ever there's a question

Of the work we've got to do

Let's make a close inspection

Of the jerk controlling you

We're all ramshackle, it's a ransack

And I'll be damned if I work for free

I gotta haul ass for a boss cat

Who's gonna break my back for me

We're all ramshackle, if you glance back

It's all the same since the age began

So if you want more than what you fought for

You better settle up and pay the Man