Gonna take more eyes than the eyes that you have in your head   To see what’s happening gonna take more teeth   Than those in your mouth to chew it all down   Gonna take more brains than the brains that you have in your skull   To find the answers ‘cause these days information stinks   There are enough lies here to fool the Sphinx      The newest version of the oldest trick   It’s been working since they wrote that book   And you say that it makes you sick   But not before that it made you look      Gonna take more words than the words that can roll off your tongue   To express that there is a way better than this to be free   Gonna take more hands than the hands that grown on your arms   To chip away the tired veneer   It’s thick as a myth   You don’t know what you’re messing with      The newest version of the oldest trick   It’s been working since they wrote that book   And you say that it makes you sick   But not before that it made you look      Oh well, it started so long ago with   Just a few rich men they   Wanted to protect what they had but the   Problem with freedom is   Everyone wants some and   If all are equal then the poor might get mad   So they found enemies, built up mythologies   To keep the people from snooping around   It worked so well we can no longer tell   Where the truth turns to dust who to kill who to trust      The newest version of the oldest trick   It’s been working since they wrote that book   And you say that it makes you sick   But not before that it made you look