stop look and listen oh boy i read the news today /
porn stars tweets gay boy eagle scouts preggers ceo of fame /
the media through history has decided what we'll say /
around the cooler but now instead connect the dots seance the dead read counterpunch harpers listen to kpfa
history is bunk we are all so very pop /
who cares what came before unless it makes money /
money cash is what they care about at the top /
history is cash go drop ship auction it all off honey
you know marilyn spoke from the grave just yesterday /
she said yes yes i stripped for jfk /
i even read some stuff about the bay /
cardona got roasted instead of cochinos on that day
pyramid power focused through mary kay /
dreams of being financially okay /
but schemes go bust at the end of the day /
now whose left borrowing against their 401k?
once i dated a republican once i dated a democrat /
but both when it comes to money are the same /
take from the prison military industrial complex then target minorities vilify frame lay the blame /
i decided i will not give them play so i broke up with no delay
muse gave me this song in a dream to relay /
she said get outta bed you bum don't delay /
strictly mid-brow lyrics will be perfectly ok /
then again maybe though kick it up lets not be too tame
for example consider bankers' pay /
cool billion dollars in crime flow every day /
human trafficing, drugs, and guns i say /
most none of them one percenters get arraigned
turns out people really are the same /
push comes to shove they pass the blame /
i was only following orders is the claim /
orders to fill so who cares who lives, dies, or gets maimed
greed is the root of all evil yesterday tomorrow and today /
liquidation economics apparently are our only way /
sustainability is a bullshit marketing ploy /
ha ha make you look the other way
people abducted off my own fucking suburban street /
nobody wants to go up against cops empowered with military heat /
to protect and to serve i thought they used to say /
more like serve up the nintey-nine, sell 'em or lock 'em away
whole damned ocean is now a blooming blight /
entirely due to fish eating human rapacious might /
rapacious as in to rape plunder slight /
carbon dioxide sinks are full it's all over we're good as dead oh so sorry good night
even if you didn't want to fuck up the world /
it is too late too out of control you don't count /
strangers pretty much run the whole of our once pure globe /
your pleas for life liberty justice inevitably drowned
yesssss sir or madam i'm pessimistic /
only ignorant fools can't be hysteric about this /
what can you do aren't you just another stupid pawn /
we kill the dodos dolphins whales now ourselves dying dead i sometimes wish we were already gone
now if you and i actually what a laugh cared /
we'd say screw that bawk bawk chicken shit i'm not scared /
i'll stand up fuck yeah and even take a bullet /
live in your shit or die in your blood
seriously now love stop this admittedly platinum track /
it could be your time right right now to contribute some payback /
i hope your sense of justice isn't dry yet has a thirst /
phone up an eco terrorist, greenpeace, or earth first
shee-oot you are just going to do nothing just like before /
i know because i am the same i suck as much as you if not more /
you hear stories about people who stood up and got taken down /
dechristopher smith peltier jamal females africa summerman
oh yeah yeah you don't have time to take any stand /
other than in your head while listenting to the am frequency band /
work and kids and bills and your latest sit com season /
reasons enough to remain part of the problem how utterly sad
