Race to the Bottom

There’s still room to be the new PT Barnum

Gotta know the legal landscape and what levers to pull

Suckers are still born every minute every hour

And there’s plenty of ways to keep our fat pockets full

So come with me on a race to the bottom

Where the pickings are easy and there’s plenty of prey

Debt, despair, deprivation, desperation

Gotta keep ‘em occupied so that we can go play

First thing is to get the books cooking

Don’t worry, you can get away with a lot

There’s no need to hide when there’s nobody looking

So let’s get this thing going while the paperwork’s hot

Come with me on a race to the bottom

Where the pickings are easy and there’s plenty of prey

Debt, despair, deprivation, desperation

Gotta keep ‘em occupied so that we can go play

Caveat Emptor

Let the buyer beware

Here’s an example of the kind of ploy we’re playin’

Endorse some athlete who gets half the people mad

The haters make the noise and all of the ruckus

And everyone else buys what we sell in our ad, so

Come with me on a race to the bottom

Where the pickings are easy and there’s plenty of prey

Debt, despair, deprivation, desperation

Gotta keep ‘em occupied so that we can go play

Caveat Emptor

Let the buyer beware

We got a fractured nation, a distracted population

Gotta take advantage just the best that we can, but we’d

better hurry ‘fore their pitchforks get in motion

‘cause they’re getting pretty being taken by the man

Come with me on a race to the bottom

Where the pickings are easy and there’s plenty of prey

Debt, despair, deprivation, desperation

Gotta keep ‘em occupied so that we can go play