Get on the wheel and you start to run
Fear of the stick and the journey's begun
Greed for the carrot always out of reach
You strain and you struggle to taste just one piece
But the wheel keeps moving as you stumble on
You scrimp and you save but the carrot is gone
When turning around gets you crushed underfoot
You run and you run cause the wheel's all you've got
Tied to the wheel you are bound and asplay
While they slowly disable you day after day
But you cling on to life becrippled and maimed
Just one more victim the system has claimed
No easy answers and no dropping out
There is no one to shout at and nothing to shout and
The wheel continues the wheel provides
The wheel keeps turning and nobody rides
At the end of the run when the wheel moves on
You're left with a feeling like everything's gone
But a new runner starts and the wheel's their lot
So they run and they run cause the wheel's all they've got
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