Bite the Hand
Endgame
2009
Duration: 4:02
Track number: 5
Times played live: 0
Writers
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine
Music by: Dave Mustaine
Theme
A fierce critique of the financial and political elite who exploit the common people. The song inverts the proverb 'Don't **bite the hand** that feeds you' by suggesting that if the feeding hand is corrupt and 'rotten, diseased, and dead,' it must be fought. It is a powerful anthem about economic injustice and the impending revolt of the people against the 'fat cats' who profit from their suffering.
Lyrics
They ball-gagged Lady Justice
And blindfolded her so she can't see
The erosion of the peoples' trust
Of what will come to be
An FDIC Assisted Suicide
The depression of a depression
Worldwide suicide for the economy
Caused by the dialectic chaos
When the Mob on Wall Street
Took We the People for a ride
When its dog eat dog, you are what you eat
Just like the mad dog that bites the hand that feeds
(Like the mad dog that bites the hand that feeds)
Just like the mad dog that bites the hand that feeds
They took everything and anything
As long as it once belonged to me
The rats got all the money
The roaches licked the cupboards clean
Of TV dinners and beer
This never-ending nightmare
Of the dreams I'll never, ever get to see
And just one silver-bullet to your head
It will set me free
From all the life I wasted trusting you
When its dog eat dog, you are what you eat
Just like the mad dog that bites the hand that feeds
(Like the mad dog that bites the hand that feeds)
When its dog eat dog, you are what you eat
(Like the mad dog that bites the hand that feeds)
Just like the mad dog you bite the hand that feeds
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