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02 / Societal Ignition

Buried in Gold

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Gold gold gold everything is gold
Every hand that touches it is beautiful and cold
Gold gold gold watch it multiply
Everything appreciates until the people die

It starts with something small you keep a little on the side
You're married to the money now the money's got a bride
You swore it was for safety but the safe is where it lives
The richer that it gets the less the rich has left to give
The yield was just a whisper now the yield is a command
The market's in your veins now and the veins are in your hand
You don't invest in futures man the future's in the stock
And every tick is ticking like a time bomb or a clock

Gold gold gold everything is gold
Every hand that touches it is beautiful and cold
Gold gold gold watch it multiply
Everything appreciates until the people die

The gross keeps getting grosser and the net keeps getting tighter
The capital is capital the punishment gets lighter
The bonds you hold are bonds you broke the interest never waivers
The currency is current till the current pulls you under
You liquidate the competition call it market correction
The equity was never equal that's the beauty of the term
The dividends divide us and the shareholders confirm
The appreciation's mutual right until the market turns

Gold gold gold everything is gold
Every hand that touches it is beautiful and cold
Gold gold gold watch it multiply
Everything appreciates until the people die

Your worth is what you're worth and what you're worth is what you earn
The value of a value system watch it crash and burn
The principal's the principle they taught you this in school
The rate at which you're rated is the rate at which you burn
Default is not a failure it's the setting that they chose
They leveraged your living till the living was a ledge
And the only ones with hedges are the ones who built the maze
And you're still running through it thinking someday it'll end

Gold gold gold everything is gold
Every hand that touches it is beautiful and cold
Gold gold gold watch it multiply
Everything appreciates until the people die

The fortune was your fortune and the fortune was your fate
The fortune teller told you but the fortune couldn't wait
The fortune was your making and the fortune was your fall
They buried you in gold
And gold
Was all
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