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City never sleeps

It is flashing, scaring the dark

Boiling human heap

It is eating, and drinking, and shitting

And gambling, and cheating

A hive of glass and steel

Concrete jungles scraping the sky

Craps and roulette wheels

Get rich or die

Gold! It makes you a king for a day

It makes the truth out of lies

You can have it all when you pay

And if you not then goodbye

Life was always cheap

Was it bronze or iron age

Modern office sheep

Sell their lives for a minimum wage

Ancient Kingdoms fell

Great Empires are on their knees

Armies burn in hell

The only thing with persistence is...

Gold! It makes the world going round

All you need to do to is to pay

To have all the things you can count

It makes you happy that way

It makes you a king for a day

Nothing you have to complain

This is the game we all play

Over and over again