The Beast - Latyrx

The lurches

It moves in fits and starts

What it touches it hurts

It’s made of the worstest parts

Of our language our soul our thirst our wants

It’s with our deepest greediest dreams

That it taunts us keeps us reaching

'til we’re off balance sprawling

Like the stock market

More than once sucker punch it gives nothing

Yet takes all without a front

Fashion oil sweat blood guts and guns

Stars and Stripes all of the colors run white

Put your finger on the button it’ll be your last kiss goodnight

You can’t fight what you can’t see

Its heart pumps behind closed doors

Power and money it’s yours

It’s exactly what you voted for

Of course you only had two choices

And they were both

Now every aspect of your life feels its blunt force

You’re pinned back against the wall with no recourse

The Beast goes unchecked like the worldwide debt

Yes The rich get richer no sweat

All of us they try to downpress

We the people ain’t done yet

No

The Beast goes unchecked like the worldwide debt

Yes The rich get richer no sweat

All of us they try to downpress

We the people ain’t done yet

No

Moves at the speed of the rolling clouds

Like a beautiful woman in a flowing gown

Enveloping everything like woollen shroud

Then tightens like a python holding a mouse

Gradually your pulse starts slowing down

'til your limbs feel cold and frozen now

Your whole body system broken down

Til the lights go off like a haunted house

Greed is an affliction

Greed is a disease

Greed is an addiction

Greed is a tease

Greed is a sweet tooth it can’t be appeased

Greed needs attention

Greed is a beast

Greed is the belief that our need for things

Completely supersedes all the things we need

We can’t see the enemy we’re fighting against

We just feel the pain and the side effects

We just feel the drain and the siphon’ing

Of our souls we sell for the the price of sin

Oil.

Gold.

A pint of flesh

All legal tenders in the times we live

Greed wreaks havoc on the lives of men

While angels we’ve

Greed makes masses a plunderous lot

Greed is a trait we’ve come to honor

The Beast goes unchecked like the worldwide debt

Yes The rich get richer no sweat

All of us they try to downpress

We the people ain’t done yet

No

The Beast goes unchecked like the worldwide debt

Yes The rich get richer no sweat

All of us they try to downpress

We the people ain’t done yet

No

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