The system depends on your income
Your income depends on your wisdom
Your wisdom depends on a kid’s Mum
Kid’s Dad or a kid’s guardian
To work hard enough to provide the smarts in them
To develop enough to give the chance that they need
Without this privilege their chances are lean
And yet, people are born who have more and we just brand them “elite”
And let them ransack the planet, give them palaces, please, it’s called greed
When you’ve taken more than you need (that’s greed)
And when others come you don’t leave that’s (greed)
You’ve got more than you’ll ever see (that greed)
Keeps you at it cos you’re just an addict for (greed)
When you’ve taken more than you need (that’s greed)
And when others come you don’t leave that’s (greed)
You’ve got more than you’ll ever see (that greed)
Keeps you at it cos you’re just an addict for
“Success” as you call it, a touch less in your wallet
Could get the impoverished some steps to a mortgage
Bank debts get abolished we get to absorb it
Tax breaks for the frauds and back breaks the defrauded
Upset with the way the world is run? You should be
The top level revels in us grafting after duck feed
Clap for carers when they literally saved the country
And vote against them getting a fair wage this country loves greed
When you’ve taken more than you need (that’s greed)
And when others come you don’t leave that’s (greed)
You’ve got more than you’ll ever see (that greed)
Keeps you at it cos you’re just an addict for (greed)
When you’ve taken more than you need (that’s greed)
And when others come you don’t leave that’s (greed)
You’ve got more than you’ll ever see (greed)
Keeps you at it cos you’re just an addict for
Adding more zeroes, buying up the competition
Pricing out the market, saying you’ve got a vision
Appealing to the right wing, paying off politicians
They’re turning a blind eye, now there’s no opposition
They change accounts so everything’s a saving now
In fact the tax evaded’s an insane amount
No contributions to the country, company’s safe and sound
If there’s a crisis like a virus they make us bail ‘em out
Man that’s greed!
When you’ve taken more than you need (that’s greed)
And when others come you don’t leave that’s (greed)
You’ve got more than you’ll ever see (that greed)
Keeps you at it cos you’re just an addict for (greed)
When you’ve taken more than you need (that’s greed)
And when others come you don’t leave that’s (greed)
You’ve got more than you’ll ever see (greed)
Keeps you at it cos you’re just an addict for
Convenience culture, they keep feeding us bullshit
We make these billionaires and then treat ‘em like sultans
“Oh but don’t insult ‘em, they’re an example to all of us
If we work hard we can make the planet a ball of dust”
Of course we could, we’re pretty much there, climate has changed
Look again in a few years, you will find it’s the same
Species dying in waves cos we want to buy it today
So get your Prime delivery in time for the end of days
Thanks to greed
When you’ve taken more than you need (greed)
And when others come you don’t leave that’s (greed)
You’ve got more than you’ll ever see (greed)
Keeps you at it cos you’re just an addict for (greed)
When you’ve taken more than you need (greed)
And when others come you don’t leave that’s (greed)
You’ve got more than you’ll ever see (greed)
Keeps you at it cos you’re just an addict for
Capitalism, they got us trapped in a system
We could vote our way out but they’ve mastered division
Got you hating your neighbour, but loving master’s decision
Got you feeling lonely when you’ve a valid opinion
The right wing succeeds cos it’s fast and efficient
While the left are arguing over what fascism isn’t
Meanwhile we’re working so hard we barely have an existence
And given the chance to change there’s a massive indifference towards greed
When you’ve taken more than you need (that’s greed)
And when others come you don’t leave that’s (greed)
You’ve got more than you’ll ever see (that greed)
Keeps you at it cos you’re just an addict for (greed)
When you’ve taken more than you need (that’s greed)
And when others come you don’t leave that’s (greed)
You’ve got more than you’ll ever see (greed)
Keeps you at it cos you’re just an addict for greed