How you gonna turn the screws on me? 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? 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 be? How you gonna turn the screws on me? On me You got the hungry under lock and key, it seems And 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) ♪ How you gonna turn the screws on me? ♪ How you gonna turn the screws on me? ♪ How you gonna turn the screws on me? Yeah Is it still a murder if it occurs gradually? Screaming through the surgery, burned to the third degree The only elements of your elaborate strategy I'm yet to see Is how you're gonna turn the screws on me On me, on me 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 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?