Skin Trade

Lure of the good life, lead into the promised land,
Crossing over borders hand in hand,
Giving trust in the face of danger,
The battle of control has just begun,
Common language, universal tongue,
Serving up salvation, liberators, pimps in disguise,
Enforcing thresholds to survive,
Switching on to satisfy, servants must perform,
Foreign acts of desperation, mercantile for existence,

Enslaved, abused and betrayed,
Trapped in the skin trade, trapped in the skin trade,

Screaming in silence,
Exchanging skin for gold,

Messiah, turned traitor, leaves all callous and drained,
Providing for the hideous and all the lame,
Enticed into a snare, held in a prison now called home,
Executing foul gratification,
Exposed to random acts of physical disgust,
Compelled to adhere to the captures corrupt mind,
Switching on to satisfy, servants must perform,
Foreign acts of desperation, mercantile for existence,

Enslaved, abused and betrayed,
Trapped in the skin trade, trapped in the skin trade,

Screaming in silence,
Exchanging skin for gold,
Slavery sold to, suffering into,
Exchanging skin for gold.