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We The People
We The People of the United States
Give up our rights with all due haste.
Companies buy and sell our lives
Stock market crashes it all goes downhill,
Capitalist economy capitalizes on profit
And exploits the lives of the ones who work the fields
We neglect the unseen the cogs in the great machine
Those who fall don't work on Wall Street
The fluctuations of supply and demand
Demand the supply of more, more, more,
As we consume, the furnace at the center
Of the great beast we call America burns,
Our great nation of customers,
Fingers greasy with the oil of poor countries
Exploited for the natural resources buried deep under the skin of the earth,
We drill deep with dumbly designed destroyers of divinity,
Driving our ravenous claws far into our Mother Earth
Never a thought to the animals,
Our next of kin,
Those precious souls who's homes we destroy on the daily
Those souls who are torn from the earth like potatoes pulled from life into a factory,
Don't deny the harsh reality,
No heaven for the cow from your last hamburger.
America is a machine,
Gas-guzzling oil monster, greasy-fingered, opened-mouthed
The nation of consumers,
We don't ever see the cogs though our eyes clouded
By the idealist pictures painted by politicians paid out of the pockets
Of the people of the United States of America.
We The People of The United States
Need something more than America the Great.
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