Repulsive furniture in a small home out in Queens
Spotted-tick-fever parents and their bat-weilding teens
Another murder, splattered across the news
Can't wait till the flames engulf this city

Walk in the slaughterhouse for an 8-hour day
Walk out a butchered sow and crammed back in the train
I'm claustrophobic, so I stay close to the door
Get out at Essex, and start to transform
Into a human

I make your Xeroxes
(I know I know)
I staple and I file
(I know I know)
I'm going braindead
(I know I know)
But I know what I'm worth,
Yeah I do

The head of my company doesn't realize
That he's expendable, it would still survive
But I'm the cannon fodder, the grease inside the wheel
I'm the nerve center, the achilles' heel

And I'm the critical link
I'm the crucial link
I'm the weakest link
At the Bottom of the Chain

In the economy
(Weak link)
At the Bottom of the Chain
(Weak link)
In the economy
(Your link)
At the Bottom of the Chain
(Bottom, bottom, bottom)

An unimportant cell of an apathetic whole
Fractured, uninterested, without any goals
I like to drink a beer, stare out into the streets
Smoke some cigarettes, cook something to eat
Waiting for the city to burn

I've made no impact
(I know I know)
On this mass culture
(I know I know)
I'm going braindead
(I know I know)
But I rule this earth
Yeah, I do
'Cause when I collate
(I know I know)
The masses tremble
(I know I know)
And when I send a fax
(I know I know)
The universe shudders at my fury

And I'm the critical link
I'm the crucial link
I'm the weakest link
At the Bottom of the Chain

In the economy
(Weak link)
At the Bottom of the Chain
(Weak link)
In the economy
(Weak link)
At the Bottom of the Chain
(Your link)
In the economy
(Go!)
At the Bottom of the Chain
(bottom, bottom, bottom)
In the economy
(Chain)
At the Bottom of the Chain
(---------)
In the economy
(bottom, bottom)
At the Bottom of the Chain
(at the bottom of the chain)
At the bottom!