Oldest Trick

Gonna take more eyes than the eyes that you have in your head

To see what's happening gonna take more teeth

Than those in your mouth to chew it all down

Gonna take more brains than the brains that you have in your skull

To find the answers 'cause these days information stinks

There are enough lies here to fool the Sphinx

The newest version of the oldest trick

It's been working since they wrote that book

And you say that it makes you sick

But not before that it made you look

Gonna take more words than the words that can roll off your tongue

To express that there is a way better than this to be free

Gonna take more hands than the hands that grown on your arms

To chip away the tired veneer

It's thick as a myth

You don't know what you're messing with

The newest version of the oldest trick

It's been working since they wrote that book

And you say that it makes you sick

But not before that it made you look

Oh well, it started so long ago with

Just a few rich men they

Wanted to protect what they had but the

Problem with freedom is

Everyone wants some and

If all are equal then the poor might get mad

So they found enemies, built up mythologies

To keep the people from snooping around

It worked so well we can no longer tell

Where the truth turns to dust who to kill who to trust

The newest version of the oldest trick

It's been working since they wrote that book

And you say that it makes you sick

But not before that it made you look

The newest version of the oldest trick

It's been working since they wrote that book

And you say that it makes you sick

But not before that it made you look