So that's the way it is now You can't believe what anybody says now Y'all got an agenda everybody's got a line It's all some kind of power play And we're all just seconds away From some kind of thought crime Closed ranks and off-shore banks Just a puddle hopper away from hiding it all You got the pilot and the gangster The accountant and the lawyer And they all got a politician in the pocket Of their tropical Shirt Gonna hide all the dirt They say they follow the money Yeah But never all the way down the line That's where the sun never shines At the end of the line When the rule of law walks out the door The devil walks in When the rule of law walks out the door The devil walks in And everyone's corruptible and everyone's a mule If it's plausibly deniable Hell show me what the rule is It's not that I don't remember I simply can't recall Doing seeing hearing saying anything at all I simply can't recall When the rule of law walks out the door The devil walks in When the rule of law walks out the door The devil walks in There ain't no shame it's just a game It all paid off you made it back to the top And you put all your guilt in a little old box And you hide it away But you see it in your eyes When you're hiding in plain sight Plain enough for everyone to see The rule of law walked out the door And the devil walked in Yeah the rule of law walked out the door And the devil walked in Put his feet up And made himself at home Right at home So that's the way it is now That's the way it is now