[Intro]
How you gonna turn the screws on me?

[Verse 1]
I find myself surrounded by wild-eyed men
I strike one down, two of them rise again
So now that you've got me in the lion's den
How you gonna turn the screws on me?
When the savage has to hurt to feed
Then the master surely has his servants beat
Our poverty is their policy
How you gonna turn the screws on me?
This way

[Pre-Chorus]
And though I know not the reason that you’re mad at me
You've cast me as an actor in this tragic pageantry (Though not the lead)
So I have to ask you, dad, if that’s how bad you'll be?
And are you gonna turn the screws on me?
On me

[Chorus]
You’ve got the hungry under lock and key it seems
That you'll never let my body be my property
So the only component now that remains to be seen is
How you’re gonna turn the screws on me
(Screw me)
[Post-Chorus]
How you gonna turn the screws on me?
How you gonna turn the screws on me?

[Instrumental Break]

[Interlude]
How you gonna turn the screws on me?
Yeah

[Verse 2]
Is it still a murder if it occurs gradually?
Screaming through the surgery, burnt to the third degree
The only element of your elaborate strategy
I’ve yet to see is
How you’re gonna turn the screws on me
On me, on me

[Chorus]
This daily disaster is your masterpiece
You have crafted an everlasting catastrophe
So I imagine smashing the last of my fragile dignity to smithereens is
How you’re gonna turn the screws on me

[Outro]
That's how you're gonna turn the screws on me
That's how you're gonna turn the screws on me
That's how you're gonna turn the screws on me
How you gonna turn the screws on me?