I stacked my cards against salvation Put my life in dirty hands Burned my clothes and jumped the border Into some broken promised land This whole world's a competition And we're all fighting to the end With not a soul above suspicion Of my position to defend These are the spoils of evolution This is the wisdom that prevailed This is the history we've chosen Tried and tested, broke and failed But unrelenting of momentum The mercenaries marching on So what if it didn't work in practice We've got a theory holding strong This little piggy went to market Screamed the injustice cannot be So give me death or give me freedom But don't you put no chains on me Go tell the jailer to break these shackles Tell the watchman turn your back Stoke the fires on the money train And watch her jump the tracks Cut a swathe across the city Carving out some great divide Until the only aspiration will be To reach the other side And what you leave can slowly wither And those you leave can go to hell Those fools should all be dreaming bigger Throwing their pennies to the well Well I say a plague on all your houses Sell a generation cheap Just to put 9 figures in your pocket And say 'what's mine is mine to keep' Stash it away in some secret island Far from the prying eyes and ears And the bony fingers of the taxman And all his Marxist scrutineers Come on throw the money up the ladder And tear the heart out of the town Do everything you can to block up the pipe So that nothing trickles down And when the house is left in ruins Swear to God it's structurally sound Oh yes we're all in this together But some are further from the ground