When I disappear, I can furnish the collectors
When I reappear, I can sit on my hands
Assassinate and punish the defectors
Keep your head afloat amidst all the demands
Pay your money for basic survival
Pay for money in this vicious cycle
There's a unnecessary, necessary family
Companions that I have to tolerate

And you're tipping your hats and you ask how I am
And I give you an easy reply
I'm tipping my hat and I don't give a damn
Salute, smile, say goodbye

Dish out the wordplay on automatic pilot
A simulation in cruise control
Required to see, required to remain eyeless
To keep my name and number on the payroll
Pay your money for the life you make
Pay your money for the breaths you take
They say that money cannot buy you happiness
And yet misery is always without charge

Pay for your fun, pay for the sun
Pay for your life and your death, every poisonous breath
Everything has a price, you gotta
Pay for your fun, pay for the sun
Pay for your life and your death, every poisonous breath
Everyone has a price to pay

When I'm flourishing you're there for your percentage
When I'm suffering you're there to throw me crumbs
Your justice is unstable and expensive
And your extortion is as easy as it comes
Sell me money at a higher rate
Devastate and fabricate
Stand side by side with all the other servants
Muscle in and crawl across the stones

Pay for your fun, pay for the sun
Pay for your life and your death, every poisonous breath
Everything has a price, you gotta
Pay for your fun, pay for the sun
Pay for your life and your death, every poisonous breath
Everyone has a price to pay