Blood Money

Track 8 from "The Machine"

[Verse 1]

In towers made of marble and steel

The masters of the world make deals

With paper thin as conscience

And hearts as cold as gold

They buy and sell tomorrow

For the power to control

Blood money flows through city veins

Blood money drives the endless trains

While ordinary people work and die

The money changers multiply

[Chorus]

It's blood money, blood money

Built on tears and pain

Blood money, blood money

Dancing in the rain

Of misery they've caused

While they count their gains

Blood money, blood money

Flowing through their veins

[Verse 2]

They crash the market when it suits them

Buy it back for half the price

Create the crisis, sell the solution

They never have to pay the price

Generations of the same old families

Pulling strings behind the scenes

While we fight for crumbs at their table

They own the American dreams

[Chorus]

It's blood money, blood money

Built on tears and pain

Blood money, blood money

Dancing in the rain

Of misery they've caused

While they count their gains

Blood money, blood money

Flowing through their veins

[Bridge]

"Too big to fail," they said

"System risk," they cried

So, we bailed them out with our future

While our hope quietly died

The house always wins

The game is rigged for sure

But the house of cards must tumble

When the people have endured enough

[Final Chorus]

No more blood money, blood money

Built on tears and pain

No more blood money, blood money

We won't dance in their rain

Of misery and sorrow

Time to break their chains

No more blood money, blood money

Revolution in our veins

Themes

Built on suffering