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Society's wealth comes from the working class
Not from Wall Street or stock buybacks
We need a new hand to be dealt
Where we do the work so we get the wealth

Twenty hour work week
Livable wage
Guaranteed housing
Healthcare paid
Exploit our labor and resources too
Take our profits and leave the world in ruin

We've been deceived
And told we were supreme
while millions of us suffer
Chasing the American Dream
Don't listen to mainstream
Don't listen to right wing
Don't listen to liberals
Cause all's they know it's the status quo

Can you conceive
What we can achieve
if Right and Left get together
Online and in the street
Organized resistance
To save our existence
Cause if the Doomsday clock is right
We have 100 seconds to midnight

One worker, one vote
On what we make and what we don't
Split the profits and split the cost
It's called Worker Co-op

One person, one vote
Whether in prison or just got off the boat
Live in this country is all you need
To take part in Democracy

We are the working people
We are the working poor
We're tired, tired of losing
There's no confusing

You've woken up the masses
From years of keeping us down
You've strangled the lower classes
We know the time is now

We know you have the power
We know you are the few
History will remember
It's you we overthrew

If you haven't figured it out yet
Cause you're distracted and so in debt
that the harder we all work
the richer they get
For thirty years wages haven't grown
Now college grads can't afford a home
in their parents' basement paying student loans

Police shooting cause of your skin
and walking away innocent
Arresting protesters in the street
And militarized police
Assault rifles everywhere
tweets saying thoughts & prayers
single mothers working 2 jobs
and the fathers behind bars

All the fracking on our land
oceans filled with bottle & cans
and the shrinking middle class
the widening income gap

all the US wars crimes
and occupation of Palestine
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From master and slave
to serf and king.
Worker and boss
It's the same old thing.
We don't own our work
or the profit it brings.
We can't make decisions
but we can lose everything.

It's a free country but not on the job
that's where they own us
That's where we're robbed.
Cause the boss at work
Is still king or queen
We take what they give us
or end up in the streets

They tell you your fired
and just send you home
No job protection
You're left on your own
No healthcare
And the bank took your home
Now you're on welfare
With the debts you owe cause

Have you heard of manufactured consent?
Where the ruling class uses the government
To try to control our mind
Not by using bullets but by using lies

They tell us it's the land of the free
And that it's our fault if we're in poverty
time to turn the blame around
and start blaming up instead of blaming down.

Have you heard of manufactured consent?
where the powers-that-be
Shape what we believe
They've been doing it for years & years
Making us blame each other
And exploiting our fears

Malcolm X said bout the press
They'll have you love the oppressors
And hate the oppressed
Time to turn the blame around
And start blaming up instead of blaming down

Forty years they had us fooled
While the elites changed all the rules
And put all the power & profits back in their hands
Just like in the history books
their greedy little hooks
Are bringing this decaying empire to its end

Like Athens and in Rome
The wealthy took control
they will always rule as long as we owe

Young and old people that I meet
Disillusion's what I see
from half the country living near poverty
drinking water isn't clean
neither are voting machines
politicians blame it on minorities

Floods and wildfires,
paid climate-deniers
it's time to rise up all us 99'ers
before they…

From abandoned revolution
You became the institution
Without consideration
For future generations
Money's all that mattered
How much you could gather
But you didn't pay it forward
For our sons and for our daughters

You started a resistance
Then became part of the systems
Just to make your money
Now your country went hungry
Peace love and understanding
now it's war that you're demanding
Earth didn't matter
Now it's burned and it's battered

We're doing bombs
and we're selling arms
it's taking its toll
on the hospitals

We're leaving blood in the soil
just to take their oil
it's plain to see
that's not democracy

we're in perpetual war
what are we doing there for
Iraq doesn't want us there no more

Economic warfare
Is deadlier than bombs there
No money food or medicine
Is hardest on the innocent

Venezuela, Libya
Palestine, Syria
Iraq, Afghanistan
Yemen, Iran

We're doing bombs
and we're selling arms
leaving blood in the soil
just to take their oil
Economic warfare
Is deadlier than bombs there
No money food or medicine
Is hardest on the innocent