Grift - Stuck In It For Life

1. Line Goes Up

2m 22s Length

201 Words

110 Unique

84.9 WPM

1072 Chars

50 Lines

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Oh
Our hopes drop like armageddon
No sucker paid to predict it saw it coming

The scholars choked on their cheap whisky
There's nothing left to do but
Send the people running

Huge chunk of flesh 
Guaranteed they will get theirs 

Tears, sweat, blood 
That's just the cruel fact of it
Line Goes Up 
And on the ground we answer for all of it 

Tears, sweat, blood 
That's just the cruel fact of it
Line Goes Up 
And on the ground we answer for all of it 

Oh 
Another red text notice at the entrance door
Your mother's hard earned career on the kitchen floor

Bring the big wigs out 
To justify their assault
And like a creepy uncle
Make it feel like it's your fault

Don't fucking touch me 
I'd rather 
Starve  

Oh shit 

Tell me what you want from me 
You've made me disposable 
Don't let that make you think 
That you're not exposable 

You've gorged yourself 
And left us with scraps and shit 
Squeezed out every drop of it 
There's nothing left for us but 

Tears, sweat, blood 
That's just the cruel fact of it
Line Goes Up 
And on the ground we answer for all of it

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2. Passports Please

2m 22s Length

193 Words

91 Unique

81.5 WPM

1107 Chars

48 Lines

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Presenting in the boardroom, 
Mrs Working Girl
A single mother so 
She'll take whatever
Please don't waste her time  

Will you pay the admin fees? 
Would you provide your passport please? 
How much do you deserve to earn? 
When will you learn? 
When will you learn?

Do you speak English? 
Are you sure? 
Is your driver's license secure? 
How much do you deserve to earn? 
Please don't waste your time 
 
You want to find solutions? 
You want to change the world? 
Good god, you're under qualified 
Despite the years you've served
 
You care about the people? 
Sir, this game you've joined
It's rules state showing kindness 
renders your ass unemployed

Another interview for
Another 9 to 5 
Another chance to pay the rent
keep the dream alive

You show a lot of promise 
They'll turn you away
Please don't waste your time 

Will you pay the admin fees? 
Will you provide your passport please? 
How much do you deserve to earn? 
When will you learn? 
When will you learn?

Do you speak English? 
Are you sure? 
Is your driver's license secure? 
How much do you deserve to earn? 
Please don't waste our time

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3. Check

3m 52s Length

396 Words

133 Unique

102.4 WPM

2068 Chars

107 Lines

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May I interest you 
in a relationship
Impersonal but vital  
Mutually beneficial
 
Sold to us since birth 
Bought into like bread 
Stuck in it for life 
Stuck until we're dead 

With invisible bars 
And invincible brains 
The finest of souls  
Have been put in chains 

Selling dreamers dreams 
Selling chasers fame 
When they've deemed me to 
Have done my time 
They will

Let me go with a gold time piece 
Half a handcuff to remind me 
Of the sentence kids aspire to be 
But we keep them in line 
And they'll keep us in check

A locked up office with a desk please 
To earn the little that I need to breathe
Keep me from being what I need to be 
But I'll keep you informed 
And you'll keep me in check 

So it's come to this
Either sink or swim
Climb the ladder, don't look down 
At all of the heads that you're kicking in 

Sold to us since birth
Bought into like bread 
Stuck in it for life 
Stuck until we're dead 

With invisible bars 
And invincible brains 
The finest of souls 
Have fought to be put in chains 

And with the rising stocks 
Come diminishing fucks 
And if you're searching for a shred of humanity 
You're shit out of luck 

So 

Let me go with a gold time piece 
Half a handcuff to remind me 
Of the sentence kids aspire to be 
But we keep them in line 
And they'll keep you in Check

A locked up office with a desk please 
To earn the little that I need to breathe
Keep me from being what I need to be 
But I'll keep you informed 
And we'll keep you in check

A state of drowning with it up to my neck 
For all the work the gain would be just a speck
You keep me spinning like a 
Damn nervous wreck but
You keep me in line and I 
keep you in check 

A state of drowning with it up to my neck 
For all the work the gain would be just a speck
Keep me spinning around like a 
Damn nervous wreck but
You keep me in line and I 
keep you 

I'll keep you in check

Check. 
Check. 
Check. 
Check. 
Check. 
Check. 

I'll keep you in 

Check. 
Check. 
Check. 
Check. 
Check. 
Check. 
Check. 
Check. 
Check. 
Check. 
Check. 
Check. 
Check. 
Check. 
Check.

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4. Rent Free

2m 46s Length

199 Words

106 Unique

71.9 WPM

1065 Chars

47 Lines

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Try to remember that you're a professional
Try to control how you behave 
Beware of those who would build you a pedestal 
They're also digging you a grave 

Learn to medicate
Get to work at eight
Headlines sell you hate
Watch the evening news
While your masters chew
Through your dreams and fate 

Must be a sight 
to see them wipe 
your blood from their chins
Before you go 
there's one more thing
I should mention 

Death wants you alive
Life wants you dead
You can't afford 
these squatting thoughts
Rent free in your head

They'll say that you were raised far better than this
That there must be another way 
They shoulda thought of that before they spat in your face
Cause at the end of the day 

Death wants you alive
Life wants you dead
You can't afford
these squatting thoughts
Rent free in your head

Are you listening to me? 
Are you listening to me? 
You do not seem to be 
Don't you dare hang up the- 

Death wants you alive
Life wants you dead
You can't afford the squatting thoughts
Rent free in your head
Rent free in your head
Rent free in your head

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5. Spare Change

2m 50s Length

251 Words

111 Unique

88.6 WPM

1414 Chars

56 Lines

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We got problems 
I'm telling you boys we got problems
It's all over the news 
We got problems 
And these men in their suits cannot solve them 

I guess we should fix this shit 
Scratch out injustice like a niggling itch 
Haul out those guillotines and let the heads roll 
Or whatever 

Time for us to address this shit
Pull it apart and restructure it 
Set fire to CEO's desk 
While his golf buddies watch
Or whatever 

Denounce the propaganda
The lie of the self-made man
Pull the brakes from that corrupt party leader's Benz 

Cold children cling to street curbs 
Their president drinks champagne
Let's haul him to the backseat 
to choke on our spare change 

I know you're fucking tired 
I'm fucking tired too 
Of paying debt to pay off shit
We need to pay our dues 

Break necks to pay our taxes
Knee deep in fucking bills
While voted politicians
Use those taxes for cheap thrills 

I guess we should fix this shit 
Scratch out injustice like a niggling itch 
Haul out those guillotines and let the heads roll 
Or whatever 

Time for us to address this shit
Pull it apart and restructure it 
Set fire to CEO's desk 
While his golf buddies watch
Or whatever 

Denounce the propaganda
The lie of the self-made man
Pull the brakes from that corrupt party leader's Benz 

Cold children cling to street curbs 
Their president drinks champagne
Let's haul him to the backseat 
to choke on our spare change
Or whatever

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