John Brown's Body - Shake The Dice lyrics

rate me

We gonna send fire to teach you / shake the dice

We might take all that you own

So when you say another word we will see through games and lies

So don't you dare make a sound

So you tumble down / you're breaking your bones

The steeper the road you go

Yet we all keep fighting just to play

Said I can't pretend the disease don't show

Now you're addicted and broke

Betting you can float, but in this slippery town

Just take a step and you'll drown

Same time while you're belly's full we can't get food enough

So shake in your boots we shout / we figure it out

We breaking you down

So are you strong enough / not to call or bluff

Strong enough to be free from games we play?

Shake up the dice and throw /

play your hand or you fold

Shake up the dice and throw /

decide are you gonna fight or make peace with me

Shake up the dice and throw /

hypnotized we stumble

Shake up the dice and throw /

decide are you gonna fight or make peace with me?

Our politician's hands are greased / they sold out to the beast

Represents the great seal watch as they compromise ideals

Why it's a law, Fam / witnessed and saw man

They put the guns in the hands of the youth that lost all hope

Set up as the scapegoat so people won't know the true

Nature of the beast / now watch here is the key

With just a slight of the hand the crowd it goes wild

They tighten down our shackles and all we seein' is smiles

They shaking the dice / it's just an ego device

Got addicted to games and now they're playing with life

I'm on a world tour with Elras my man

With a Mic in our hands, revealing terrorist plans

So are you strong enough / not to call or bluff

Strong enough to be free from games we play?

Shake up the dice and throw /

play your hand or you fold

Shake up the dice and throw /

decide are you gonna fight or make peace with me

Shake up the dice and throw /

hypnotized we stumble

Shake up the dice and throw /

decide are you gonna fight or make peace with me?

You play me too far, now we coming to your own home

To make you give what you owe

You can't help the way you shudder and shake

You're thinking too slow

You better wait 'til you're grown

You can't play your card deceiving the crowd,

So keep on watching your mouth

Or maybe truth will come out

Don't break your neck just to steal the prize

Play for something real