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