The Dying And The Dead

Lyrics

[Intro] Thiry thousand autoworkers have gone to work to find That they've been downsized from the assembly to the unemployment line The employee seeking job security is content with what employers give Thinning out the job market keeps the workers competitive [Verse 1] The upper one percent receive tax breaks, social program cuts commence Educational funds take a back seat to America's defense These education cuts are an investment in the prison industry An occupational restructuring towards a slave labor economy The chance of survival on death row disappears, their right to appeal is deprived Worker strength and solidarity depleted with union officials bribed Raising taxes to build sports stadiums while the homeless are ignored Refusing to supply the health care benefits most people can't afford The newly founded citizen review board members are all police The gap widens between the cost of living and inflation increase [Verse 2] Those in power own the media machine, it's the vehicle for their views They bury all of their corruption under fluff reported news They bombard us with statistics to influence public opinion The more ridiculous the lie, the more people seem to listen It's the people with no money that are responsible for the rest of us being poor We'll just eliminate the welfare system to even up the score Our conditions never imporve, no matter how many programs we stop The money always seems to circulate back to the people at the top The occasional whining criticisms keep the public satisfied The rest are busy escaping reality with drugs the CIA supplied [Bridge] It's always the most oppressed who easily fall victim to ignorance Even with all that they've been through, they still pledge allegiance To their country and the flag that has caused all of their grievous pain Patriotism leads to natonalism, which in turn proceeds to fascism Poor and working-class people are the tools of sick corporate perseverance Shit on little puppets exploited in the trials of human dominance But still the pride goes on blindly and in so-called freedom they gloat Waving the flag, but cursing the politicians they think they elect when they vote [Verse 3] Behind the trails of our peacekeepers lie the dying and the dead There are millions of starving children that are waiting to be fed Because executive orders demand that economic sanctions are applied If they had bowed down to our pressure, relief may have just arrived As the world's only superpower, we rule without regret We don't let these children survive and grow up to be a threat [Outro] Love of this country is based on nothing but the fear of living somewhere worse And gratitude shouldn't be the reaction to someone else being slaughtered first