We Built A Monster Lyrics - Thea Gilmore

Stretched between the lamplight and the cigarette ash 

In the corner of the city where the markets crashed 

There are boxes of the lonely here and fires of hope 

We built a monster 

We built a monster 

You can take a bit of red a bit of white and blue 

From across the Atlantic laying trails to you 

A little flash of lightning and some bully boy charm 

We built a monster 

We built a monster 

This thing can cross oceans in its seven league boots 

It can chew the money tree right down to its roots 

The ship of a state can go under in minutes 

You don't know the flood is coming until you're swimming in it. 

It ain't come from the hungry, it ain't come from the bored 

It ain't tramping out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored 

It spins like a tequila worm inside all of us 

We built a monster 

We built a monster 

It can breathe its greed into innocent souls 

It can raise up armies, it can blow 'em full of holes 

It can dress for occasion if occasion demands 

There is power in the chase, there is power in the hand 

So the city flickers on like a reeperbahn night 

Hissing like a wildcat just about to fight 

And it mutters that we rule by ladders of degree 

We built a monster 

We built a monster 

We built a monster 

We built a monster