Thomas Cole - 21st Century Bandits Lyrics

Way up in the city
They run it every day
Manipulate the numbers
Explain it all away

In a town west of Omaha
It hit em like a brick
Bought and sold the hometown mill
Now everybody's sick

Mad man on the street
Says ride the market wave
Don't you worry about the dips, y'all
Even if it's all you saved

He'll tell you when to sell
Cause he's the money man
But the way things are goin'
We'll all be broke again

They say it's for the best
That things gotta change
Just a little sacrifice
For our growing pains
What they never tell you
You're a sucker in their game
21st Century Bandits
Are selling our dreams away

Take this new concoction
The local doctor said
It'll kill the pain in your side
And whatever's in your head

Came in from the Far East
Might as well be lead
Tom and the Artist took it
Now they're among the dead

Back at the club in Midtown
They're heavy into wine
Gotham may be crumbling
At least that I've got mine

Same day they found Randy
In the Colorado pines
With a bag of weed and pain meds
Put him on a flatline


They say it's something new
To help you ease the pain
Just a little pill now
To cope with all this change
What they never tell you
You're a pawn in their game
21st Century Bandits
Are killing us night and day

(Solo)

Yeah they made off with the money
To a European bank
Gutted all the small towns
Our dreams are in the tank

Ship is sinking fast
Like the Edmund in the lake
Desperate cries for leadership
To stop this big mistake......


Yeah the bear is coming
To the cities and the towns
Springfield down to Tyler
Prowling all around
Cleaning out the mom and pops
Big boys own em now
21st Century Bandits take what the law allows
21st Century Bandits take what the law allows