The Lords

Thump!
Thump!
Thump!
The Lords are leaping high in the air,
They squander and pillage with nought but a care,
A gulp of brew and a sip blood,
A haughty laugh of negligence,
They trample the town and crowd about,
Filling the chambers with their raucous shout.

The Lords toast to toast themselves,
Suited in galore and drink throughout,
By night they trample down the men,
Who happen to happen about before them,
With no souls but greed,
They growl and they breed,
Awaiting an heir,
Who will breathe their own air,
As they shuffle about
With no screams and no shouts
As business continues throughout.

It’s just business you see!

A poor old man may hurry past,
Not realising the look that was his last,
The Lords fall down with ravenous glee,
Taking his life for all to see.
The same old man now wanders the streets,
Joining the crowd that forms behind he,
A wavering mass of villains in fleet,
Tramping behind their masters with their decree:

It’s just business you see!

The Lords adorn their high backed chairs,
Signing aware with an angry glare,
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,
They wait for some God to send to them proof,
If what they do is ever so wrong,
How hard can it be for one simple song?
They wait and they wait, for ever so long,
But soon they all fall to the three pointed prong.

It’s just business you see!

The crowd they all scarper, renouncing their care,
As the Lords tramp back to within their lair,
To summarise the days despise,
A figure of money and half-hearted lies,
They slip into bed beside their fat brides,
And can do nought much else but swallow their pride,
And hope that the missus will not see,
As they give all up for the birds and the bees,

It’s just business you see?

And so the Lords begin again,
Ravaging the towns that fall before them,
Sucking men dry of every pound,
Leaving them shameless upon the ground,
Until the devil himself must force them down,
From their high-backed thrones of marrow and bone,
To lie in their sorrow alone in their home.

It’s just business you see.
But rather you, than me.