Prison Is Private Property Lyrics - Rocky Votolato

The have nots have had enough and now they're out to kill the king 

Of what looks to be an evil empire where short-term earnings mean everything 

There's a pressure to deliver here, your gonna get hurt if you don't play this game 

Nobody will ever know, just the CEO to the CFO 

If you can work some magic, we can double our paychecks, so make the numbers look right 

Wall street is a ruthless mistress with a quick and painful judgment 

Temptation is in deep now, threads of greed run through this fabric 

Weaving tapestries over your eyes to prepare the landscapes for disaster 

Anthrax or a plane crash, biochemical, or even nuclear attacks 

Integrity is too damn expensive, discount the price but still 

Nobody's buying so come up with the money boys or you'll be choking on a barrel 

And it just might be your own finger squeezing on the trigger 

Call in the reinforcements 

you're working hard on a life of your own 

Three square meals and a place to call home 

The American dream can be found here if you keep your mouth closed 

But the teeth you keep clenched is what's killing the chance 

Your mouth is watering as you imagine 

Swallowing each new possession 

It's building a prison 

you'll think there's a place where you made it 

You searched for this your whole life 

New answers will satisfy but then you realize it's never enough 

That's the slickest marketing I've ever seen - a spiraling trap 

With enough ambition and a firm set of rules you can have anything you want 

You can walk right out into the world and capture and kill god 

In a little box or a little book to be understood 

But no one can argue with the good sense and strength of a solid foundation 

Or with the weakness born when corruption is the rule and not the exception 

I'm trying hard to forget everything I thought I knew 

You've climbed much too high to let the truth stop you now 

Or to concern yourself with the investments of 

Lesser honest men 

The ladder's been brutal but the payoff is just around the corner 

Call in the reinforcements 

you're working hard on a life of your own 

Three square meals and a place to call home 

But you keep getting lost each time you walk out your front door 

Me I've got a family I know real well what it means 

To make sure there's enough food on the table each day 

But I'd rather starve than be a whore for an empty living