Bullfight for an Empty Ring - Five Iron Frenzy

This in memorandum: nil desperandum

I will read the news with reckless abandon

Another protest and the world is in distress

Another bomb explodes and another finger blames the press

Shoot before the arrest, guns for teachers, Kevlar vests

Cardboard for the homeless — cake to feed the dispossessed

So light the coal, your future is a dust bowl

You can’t see the sun 'cause oil pays the bankroll

Bullfight for an empty ring

Soundbites sing of your backstabbing

Bullfight for an mpty ring

You can keep it all

Your avarice and coveting

They’r making change for dollar bills in bullets

Steal the Black Hills, survival of the fullest

Just cock your Glock the market’s looking bullish

Cinch up your millstone free enterprise will pull us

Death to those who disagree partisans like dominoes

Wolves in the assembly

Casting votes for Jesus' clothes

Nip at your heels, your mores up for auction

You fold your hands to pray only later just to wash them

Bullfight for an empty ring

Soundbites sing of your backstabbing

Bullfight for an empty ring

You can keep it all

Your avarice and coveting

For the lesser good, you bought the greater wrong

You have gained the world but lost your song

You could end the suffering, but all you want is everything

All you want is everything

All you want is everything

Bullfight for an empty ring

Soundbites sing of your backstabbing

Bullfight for an empty ring

You can keep it all

Your avarice and coveting