Lowdown

Rapacity means 'greed', and the song's about how business operates, how it makes one person feel like a number rather than a free man / woman.

The employees are the weak, unempowered, shat on by men who watch profit forecasts and statistic sheets. They don't see their employees as people, merely a means to an end. Any bright spark is quickly harnessed by the money men in order to further their own ambitions, worked harder and harder and eventually burnt out and left behind.

I actually started to write this when a tune popped into my head while walking through Bradford on a grey February lunchtime. What that says about Bradford I don't know, but it probably says more about my state of mind at the time.

The chorus is about hoping that a higher power is tuning into the plight of the people at the bottom of the ladder and planning to do something to help, because they no longer have the willpower to save themselves.