We Built A Monster

Stretched between the lamplight and the cigarette ash

In the corner of the city where the markets crashed

There are boxes of the lonely here and fires of hope

We built a monster

We built a monster

You can take a bit of red a bit of white and blue

From across the Atlantic laying trails to you

A little flash of lightning and some bully boy charm

We built a monster

We built a monster

This thing can cross oceans in its seven league boots

It can chew the money tree right down to its roots

The ship of a state can go under in minutes

You don’t know the flood is coming until you’re swimming in it.

It ain’t come from the hungry, it ain’t come from the bored

It ain’t tramping out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored

It spins like a tequila worm inside all of us

We built a monster

We built a monster

It can breathe its greed into innocent souls

It can raise up armies, it can blow ‘em full of holes

It can dress for occasion if occasion demands

There is power in the chase, there is power in the hand

So the city flickers on like a reeperbahn night

Hissing like a wildcat just about to fight

And it mutters that we rule by ladders of degree

We built a monster

We built a monster

We built a monster

We built a monster