The great and the good

Stiniking to the bowels of high heaven
Creeping to the giants of status
Guarding protection of interests, not you

Not you or anything that might
Be misconstruced as help

Marching through the ashes of conquests
Slapping the backs of the empire men
Selling our consent
In the process that's you

That is you and everything
You'd be reduced to do

A pledge is a pledge
But only 'til it doesn't suit your friends
The art of double-talk
Adamant on what you really meant

A pledge is a pledge
Is a pledge, is a pledge

For lesser, for poorer
Pluck out their eyes, they offend
Dumb animals can't precede
The lucre of barbaric tests

Big noise says jump now
The chasm is never too high or wide
The corporate slow-killer
Punished with a lenient smile

A pledge is a pledge
Is a pledge, is a pledge

The arrogance, the hand in hands
Of despotic freaks that defend
An oversight where human rights
Fall at the fence of good trade

Yes man? Always

Drop the high and mighty fade?
Do the decent thing
Consider mouthing one word of truth
Blow open the grand scheme

Yes man? Always
Yes man? Always
Yes man? Always

Drop the high and mighty fade?
Do the decent thing
Consider mouthing one word of truth
Blow open the grand scheme

A pledge is a pledge
Is a pledge, is a pledge

The man is the bubble
Smiles berates the condemned
Back to his crusade
Fights off more cries of dissent