To be alive is a crime If you are yet to be punished To be dead without crime in a mortal coil
Satirical Steinways, we were free ***** on piano toil Writs, bills, frights in the proceeds going to poverished oracles Impoverished by the diligent working class for the polity
Living in the city, politics putting us in the governed cells Freedom loves, seek the whole motivated world on shiny stakes Start stamping your immigration papers or work in the metallurgical
The humor of passionate egalitarians, everything is equal that sells The drunken man sells his words in dollars, crumpled heaps, Schopenhauer on the doorsteps Looking at the rabble with a thin eye and searches Through thick and thin Through fat and skinny Through shallow and deep Through jejune and adult To be dead is a life worth living
Am I knocking on heaven's door Or is the executioner culling us