The Confidence Trick

Deep inside there's a flaw
That draws us towards the worst in us
The worst of us

It amplifies the certain
The confident and cruel
While the quiet and the grown up are ignored

We're quick to fall for
The confidence trick
To fool ourselves
To let ourselves be used
We've fallen once again
For the confidence trick
And we never learn
We never learn

We're so quick, to lose ourselves to the confidence trick
We want to believe
We're happy to be deceived
We sell ourselves for nothing
To the oldest trick
The confident incompetent
Narcissistic slaughter-men rise

We fool ourselves that this can go on forever
Keep trying to believe all the way to the slaughterhouse door
The fool ourselves, the willing mark, for the confidence trick
And we never seem to learn, we never learn
We rush to throw ourselves under the boot of the confidence trick
And we never seem to learn, we never learn, we never learn