Exile On Wall Street

Sidewalks are flooded with every wolf wanna-be

You Gekko's a phone call away, but he's just out of reach

Perched up in a high rise while buildings grow ever taller

Why's everyone gotta be in everybody's business while behavior falters

Keep walking through jaded valleys toward covered mirrors in a hallway

You'll never truly see you actions until reflections are caught always

Go easy on your lovelight

Go easy on concrete

Go easy in conclusions without all facts splayed at your feet

Go easy in your bones when they feel like deceit

Or you just might find yourself in exile on wall street

There's vampires around every corner just waiting for their bloodlust chance

Too many dreamers feel compelled to hover, they just want to get in your pants

Too few exude patience or question why and what it's all worth

Just like too many clowns stepping out of car canal like an endless birth

There's escapees from the asylum, misguided voices preying on the scene

Snorting themselves into oblivion, never finding it out what it all means

There's blinding worship to the heavens as the devil sows your greed

You can walk endless miles praying you don't get swallowed up by the sea

You're caught in an endless ocean

Currents caught you as you to breathe

You're caught without knowing how they got their hooks into your meat

You're caught in web of ego, feeling cut off at the knees

Standing on your stumps in exile on wall street

I saw you indiscreetly say "that's what we did" though no one else was there to see

Maybe it's all in your mind how heroic you are, that's what it is for me

There's a heavy toll at ornamental gates when the party reaches its peak

Then comes the heavier crash when all the tips reward stupidity

Tornados of dysfunction sit at tables of king makers' fleet

Defacing spirit, collecting tokens from everyone that they meet

Don't share that it's all out of tune when you're eyes and ears can't find the beat

Stuck like a portrait of friendships, hanging fake currency won't help you eat

You pay if you're worship

Where pay's expected before belief