What do you do when the states can't pay their pensions?
What do you do to alleviate their tensions?
Fire up that press you've got sitting in the corner
You won't be around to see all the mourners
Print a little money, it's a shot in the arm
It's hard to see around the bend to perceive the harm
And by the time all that debt comes due
You'll be dead and gone; tell the future 'fuck you'
Hyperinflate... Pump more air in that balloon
Hyperinflate... Send asset prices to the moon
Hyperinflate... The bread lines spill around the block
Hyperinflate... Let's see you turn back that clock
Three-and-a-half trillion bucks, give a seventh to the public
Divvy up the rest with your friends; what a beautiful republic
Yes, everybody wins except the value of a dollar
Why's my burger gettin' smaller if my chip stack's gettin' higher
Why's there nothing here to buy, why are the prices all so high
Do the laws of gravitation stop just short of our great nation
"It can never happen here, since it hasn't happened yet"
Said every tightrope walker 'fore he dove right through his net
Hyperinflate... Gasoline upon the fire
Hyperinflate... Better puncture-proof that tire
Hyperinflate... Venezuelas and Zimbabwes
Hyperinflate... Won't matter how much your job pays
Greenspan, Bernanke, Yellin, and Powell
Want the root causes; find them and howl
Watch them rub their chins and bemoan inequalities
They'll never admit the effect of their policies
Schopenhauer said all truth passes through three stages
Ridiculed at first, violently opposed on the next pages
Then when the storm sweeps away all the sediment
Everyone suddenly finds it self-evident
If it didn't work once just try it again
Kick the can down the road and wait until when
There's nowhere to kick it so just hide in your bunker
Hope no one finds you when it's your turn to hunker
What'd'ya do when the last bubble's in the past
Blow another one even bigger than the last
What dot-com didn't take down, housing sure did
And now we're in one so big, there's no holding down the lid
So just hyperinflate... A quadrillion-dollar bill
Hyperinflate... That'll prove the perfect pill
Hyperinflate... And watch everyone revolt
Hyperinflate... Let's see you handle that jolt
Hyperinflate
Hyperinflate
Hyperinflate
Hyperinflate