Steppenwolf - Five Finger Discount lyrics

Words and music by John Kay

You say that everybody takes

And you just take it faster

To play with other people's coin

You really seem to master

Will you tell me if you can

How you cut out the middleman?

I pay dues and I pay debt

You just always seem to get

That Five Finger Discount

You just can't do without

That Five Finger Discount

You prey on every legal flaw

That you can find some gain in

The way you sodomize the law

Is really quite amazing

But no one cares

No one feels

Until it is from him you steal

Seems like people of your ilk

Always find a way to milk

That Five Finger Discount

Got the blue collar

Got the white collar

Got the green dollar

Color in their eyes

Some are day-callers

Some are night crawlers

Some are stone wallers

That hide behind a lie

Some are still hitting books

Some are hitting banks

They're hitting below the belt

Some are doctoring books

Some are doctoring crooks

Got their larcenous hooks

Where the pain can be felt

Got their hands in my pocket

Got their gun up my nose

Where it ends no one knows

For the scales of Justice

Appear to have rusted

They're not to be trusted

They're busted for good

You know that you have truly earned

A moving violation

For all the suckers you have burned

You'll feel some dislocation

You had your gall, had your nerve

What you got coming you deserve

Before you leave the human race

I'm gonna offer to you face

My Five Finger Discount

© 1981 Rambunctious Music

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