There's a kind of shrewd deceiver preying on the weak and the slow There's a kind of true believer - mad, bad and dangerous to know But here's a kind of Hollywood Ending - they'll be the first ones to go Waving and smiling Scratching and climbing Nickle and diming Waving and smiling There's a kind of pure obsession easier to start than stop Your own personal house of Usher, crackin' up from bottom to top You walk the streets like David Duncan waiting for the other shoe to drop Waving and smiling Scratching and climbing Nickle and diming Waving and smiling With a mind like a roller-coaster, careening from career to corrupt This rickety architecture is all that's holding it up Offer your arms up to heaven and pray to god it all stays up Waving and smiling Scratching and climbing Nickle and diming Waving and smiling