[Verse 1]
Gold-plated handshake
Ink on a poisoned deal
Smiles cut like barbed wire
Tell us how we should feel (yeah)
You dress your greed in jargon
Call your hunger “growth”
But every spotless office
Hides a thousand throats (uh)
[Pre-Chorus]
Do you pray to your logo at night? (say it)
Do you choke on the names you buy?
We’re the cracks in your pretty white lie (hey)
We’re the rage that you can’t lay off this time
[Chorus]
Teeth made of money
You chew us up
Spit us out (spit us out)
All of your castles
Built on our fear and doubt (yeah)
You hide in your glass crown
While we burn on the ground
Teeth made of money
We’re here to tear them out (tear them out, hey)
[Verse 2]
You sell us back our hours
Stamped with your plastic brand
Call the chains “opportunity”
While you’re washing your hands (ha)
Numbers on your spreadsheet
Drip from a worker’s spine
We’re bleeding in the margins
Of your precious bottom line (woah)
[Pre-Chorus]
Do you toast every layoff with wine? (cheers)
Do you sleep when the rivers die?
We’re the storm in your perfect sky (hey)
We’re the ink that will cross your bottom line
[Chorus]
Teeth made of money
You chew us up
Spit us out (spit us out)
All of your castles
Built on our fear and doubt (yeah)
You hide in your glass crown
While we burn on the ground
Teeth made of money
We’re here to tear them out (tear them out, go)
[Bridge]
[Breakdown hits
Drums and guitars drop to half-time]
You can buy the law (buy the law)
You can buy the news (buy the news)
But you can’t buy back
All the lives you abuse (no)
We are not your line item
We are not your spare parts (never)
We are names
We are veins
We are beating hearts (hey, hey)
[Chorus]
Teeth made of money
You chew us up
Spit us out (spit us out)
All of your castles
Built on our fear and doubt (tear ‘em down)
You hide in your glass crown
While we burn on the ground
Teeth made of money
We’re here to tear them out (tear them out)
[Outro]
(grr) Tear them out
One by one
From your smile
Till the damage is done (yeah)