CROCODILE TEARS

Bootstraps, merit
Hard work makes success
If you worship credit
If you honor your debts
If you can cling to your excess
Then cling to your excess
And you can always second guess
Those with less

Make straw men
Cry crocodile tears
You can speak in tongues to cover your hatred
But it won’t make a difference
All are complicit
In dispossession

How can you be so blind
To the shadow you cast?
Blithe, with the things that you have
You’ll exploit any divide
Because it pays to tow the line

Make straw men
Cry crocodile tеars
Reposition your wealth as moral advantage
Bury all thе evidence
You are complicit, complicit

Oh, you only preach hard lessons
From a self-indulgent fortress
Entitled convenience
Careless, sadistic
You advance under protection
You thirst for shock and scandal
You revel in T.V. Crimes
You faint of heart
You shallow center

Stay fixed to the mirror
Keep licking your trifling wounds
You can make a mess if you want
Someone else will clean it up
Someone else will clean it up
Someone else will clean it up
Clean up
Clean up