Thea Gilmore - We Built A Monster lyrics
[Thea Gilmore - We Built A Monster lyrics]
Stretched between the lamplight and
The cigarette ash in the corner of the city
Where the markets crashed
There are boxes of the lonely
Here and fires of hope we built a monster
We built a monster
You can take a bit of red
A bit of white and blue
From across the Atlantic laying trails to you
A little flash of lightning and
Some bully boy charm we built a monster
We built a monster
This thing can cross oceans in
It's seven league boots
It can chew the money tree
Right down to it's roots
The ship of a state can go under in minutes
You don’t know the flood is coming
Until you’re swimming in it
It ain’t come from the hungry
It ain’t come from the bored
It ain’t tramping out the vintage where
The grapes of wrath are stored
It spins like a tequila worm inside all of us
We built a monster we built a monster
It can breathe it's greed into innocent souls
It can raise up armies
It can blow ‘em full of holes
It can dress for occasion if occasion demands
There is power in the chase
There is power in the hand
So the city flickers on
Like a reeperbahn night
Hissing like a wildcat just about to fight
And it mutters that we rule
By the ladders of degree we built a monster
We built a monster we built a monster
We built a monster
The cigarette ash in the corner of the city
Where the markets crashed
There are boxes of the lonely
Here and fires of hope we built a monster
We built a monster
You can take a bit of red
A bit of white and blue
From across the Atlantic laying trails to you
A little flash of lightning and
Some bully boy charm we built a monster
We built a monster
This thing can cross oceans in
It's seven league boots
It can chew the money tree
Right down to it's roots
The ship of a state can go under in minutes
You don’t know the flood is coming
Until you’re swimming in it
It ain’t come from the hungry
It ain’t come from the bored
It ain’t tramping out the vintage where
The grapes of wrath are stored
It spins like a tequila worm inside all of us
We built a monster we built a monster
It can breathe it's greed into innocent souls
It can raise up armies
It can blow ‘em full of holes
It can dress for occasion if occasion demands
There is power in the chase
There is power in the hand
So the city flickers on
Like a reeperbahn night
Hissing like a wildcat just about to fight
And it mutters that we rule
By the ladders of degree we built a monster
We built a monster we built a monster
We built a monster