The Economy! Songtext
von Gumshoes

The cloud bed bred and settled down
To drown a metalworking town
But don′t leave your tools to rust
There's gold still in the dust
We′re gonna build a tower upon
An unambitious Babylon
A thousand hands to help
And the tower builds itself

Won't you raise your weary arms for me?
Just one more story and I'm sure we will finally see
Beyond the sky
The economy, economy, economy of you and I


The brakeless train will shed its wheels
To get a taste of how it feels
With stones from roman roads
And bricks picked out our homes
No one likes the squealing sound
Of wheels and axles gearing down
So it′s keeping up the pace for now
You gotta keep the pace somehow

Won′t you raise your weary arms for me?
Just one more story and I'm sure we will finally see
Beyond the sky
The economy, economy, economy of you and I

I′m weak, I'm tired and all to hear
Is be inspired or disappear
Oh show me what you′re worth
Show me fit to work
So they tore up my floors, they used the pine
For stories maybe you could climb
Cause there's nothing else you knew
But to hustle as they hustled you

Won′t you raise your weary arms for me?
Just one more story and I'm sure we will finally see
Beyond the sky
The economy, economy, economy of you and I


Ravenous wolves in cavernous halls
Cinking a glass as the chandlier falls
Drinking to your health
Well when they enforce a body like yours
Collapse on their stairways and bleed on their floors
Cause you are more than wealth
Well nothing builds itself

Won't you raise your weary arms for me?
Just one more story and I′m sure we will finally see
Beyond the sky
The economy, economy, economy of you and I
In the throes of productivity
I′m beaten, I'm breaking but maybe we′ll finally see
A clearer sky
Economy, economy, economy of you and I