We Built This City! (On Debts And Booze)

Seeking out an honest living soul

Checking every body for a pulse

Lifting every eyelid for a glimmer of evil left to give

Meaning to meaningless, that much I'd die for

Searching through this body stack for hours

Yeah, from the bottom

Pride is gone the night

We sink to the bottom, we'll never be one of them

Awake, arise

Eat, work, shit, sleep, awake, arise

Awake, arise

Eat, work, shit, sleep, awake, arise

Listen as the chorus marching

Union roars like a lion

This old man with hat in hand just said it

We built this city on debts and booze

Twelve years of debt and I'll be paying it off

With blood and sweat but it means nothing at all

I'll pay the price

'Till I die

And every jaded hero clings to his worth

In it for paychecks, moving units and merch

But I decline

To ever be one of them

Awake, arise

Eat, work, shit, sleep, awake, arise

Listen as the chorus marching

Union roars like a lion

This old man with hat in hand just said it

We built this city on debts and booze

Legs on the ottoman and head in the mosh

Sharp like an astronaut but dull as a rock

An angel's sigh

Damn right, we got a problem now

I'm mimicking the drum fills with my head on the wall

The voice of God comes through the morning alarm

Awake, arise

Awake, arise

Wake up!

I've laughed before but not so heavy as

A fire and brimstone hilarity mess

That said we'll be here for the end of it all

By cutting off the strings we used to pull

And reaching deep for thoughts and ways to bring us back to better days

'Till king and queen pass out, drunk off their power

We'll stand in light of evil eyes forever

We'll be there for the end of it all

Awake, arise

Eat, work, shit, sleep, awake, arise

We'll be there for the end of it all

To stand in line of evil eyes forever

Strangers

At the bottom