Saturday, December 07, 2002 ::: ..::People's Outcry::..
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Evil manifested in corporate schemes Economic crisis breaking ideal dreams C.E.O.'s of M.C.'s busy w/ biz While laying off workers, try to downsize this! Phil Knight's paying Carter a million bucks While Indonesian 12-yr olds are outta luck My dad juss lost his job, thank god he's got another It's hard to make a living, for him, me ,and my mother Now how'm I supposed to learn, without any books Without an education, my life screws, I turn a crook So now I beg to ask: whom should I to blame? Whom to point the finger at? Who to put to shame? A capitalist parliament, puppetered by trade? By that Wal-Mart store, where I buy w/ lay-away? Steal from the poor, for the rich to hoarde Driving into bankruptcy, the small convenient stores Half across the world, you meet a little boy Who's had a hard life, making shoes and making toys For those rich ritz prick's kids that we see Who never could imagine, how harsh life could really be This is how we live, in a global class conflict Sad part is, we can't get beyond this Down south, that's where i'm talkin 'bout With health care privatized; you can hear the patients shout "Doctor help me, my son is really sick!" "Sorry, gotta wait. We're tryin to run a biz" But what would you expect, of people led by greed Their only motivation, from which they can't be freed Most of us suffer, for others to grow fat It's amazing the compassion for others that we lack But still we feel content, when giving charity To band-aid groups who try to help so futily Kids already dead, babies that are dying Children that are starving, mothers that are crying Parents unemployed, kids who can't eat Whom are lucky enough, to even *live* on the streets So that's the way it goes, that's how the money flows But still we live our lives, in this cruel way we chose With media marketing, making us so jaded Exploiting our own, very soul that we've traded Cuz we don't really care about the inhumane means As long, to our advantage, works the corporate schemes So I guess it must be true, ignorance has to be bliss Cuz looking around, that's why we live like this
