You’ve got to give it to the boys and the girls in the back Buying ammo for their next attack The only thing they'll get for tonight is a fuck or a fight Or even both if they're lucky enough You’ve got to give it to the ones on the billboard signs With lines like: It's a good thing with good things, right? When you think that it should say: Here's a really stupid way Of reaching out your hand and grab the whole fucking crowd But this ain't rock & roll This is capitalism By the feet of your ambition it ain't rock & roll Only capitalism But by the feet of my ambition there is rock & roll You’ve got to give it to the ones that are waterproof Telling everyone else to let loose But if you stand in the way they confuse and dismay, pointing fingers Make you look like a fool And you, you’ve got to give it us with the golden pants Screaming for equality, getting fans I say we go to the mirror with something to tell Put eight fingers down and go fuck yourself But this ain't rock & roll This is capitalism By the feet of your ambition it ain't rock & roll Only capitalism But by my feet I only have my rock & roll So you sold your soul to the reptile brain and alcohol So you sold your soul to the loneliness of those without rock & roll