[Verse

Under the table shadows grow tall

Whispers echo through the dimlit hall

Greasy hands shake making silent calls

Empty pockets filled behind brick walls

[Verse 2

In the office towers built so high

Truth is buried in the clouded sky

Money flows but the well's run dry

Honesty sold for another lie

[Chorus

Cover the tracks with a velvet smile

Painted truths that stretch a mile

Promises bent shattered with style

Laughing all the way we'll beguile

[Verse 3

Secret meetings in the witching hour

Fuel the machine of greed and power

Innocence crushed like a fragile flower

Petty kings sitting in the ivory tower

[Verse 4

Dreams are bought with ink and steel

Reality checks too hard to feel

Behind the curtain the wounds don’t heal

Spinning the lies with twisted zeal

[Bridge

We follow blindly through the smoke

Believing words they lightly spoke

But every leader’s just another hoax

Tied to the crime the system cloaks