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[aid] => Mick
[title] => JUST THINK ABOUT IT
[time] => 2003-06-12 01:25:00
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[bodytext] => You’re in a country with little power Survival comes to you hour by hour Your country is run by a rich elite You keep running to stay on your feet Working like a slave day and night You feed your family but always fight Your life expectancy is not very long Your pleasures few, a drink and a song Then one day a chance to be free To live your life with some dignity Better schooling for your kids and better health care An army and police who’re not there to scare You grasp at this chance with both hands At last a group that understands And they are poor just like you And it’s obvious what you must do Take the power wherever you can Organise yourselves and make a plan With like-minded souls who want the best To create a government that stands the test Not simply to preserve a powerful elite Not to look down noses at the poor at their feet Who wont simply pocket the nation’s wealth At the expense of the people and their health But there’s a problem that is well known One side gets less when the other has grown If the poor get more then there’s less for the rich So brand them Socialist and here’s the hitch A powerful observer comes on the scene That has an agenda corrupt and obscene To foster stability for it’s own greedy sake And ensure the elites don’t lose any stake People power is trouble to the USA They keep in power those who pay And using their power they will undermine Any local attempt to win hearts and minds Perhaps back home they know nothing of this But in our country hatred is growing like a cyst For this elitist observer who supports the crime Of rich suppressors treating the people like swine It’s no secret at all that the CIA is there And the knowledge of covert activities where It’s meant to be hidden and no one know Lots of PR circus and propaganda show But in the end the result is so clear Suppress the people by instilling fear And if they ever come to succeed Then destroy their hopes by a covert feed To terrorist groups that disrupt their lives Spread lies and discord, destroy and despise Do anything to smash those noble dreams Of the little man and his fragile schemes For your interests are served by the ruling elite Any people power you fight to defeat But much much later your people gasp to find That the US is hated—how come they’re so blind? Connect the dots and it’s there to see Your land has caused so much misery While the PR told you it was all for the good Your conscience will tell you what your government should That all the talk of spreading democracy Was so much hogwash and hypocrisy That the aim in the end was to keep the status quo To hold down the people who’re seen as the foe To keep those riches flowing in a steady stream The same old materialist American dream To prop up dictators as long as they fed Your business interest and if not, they’re dead A curse on the world your nation has been In dozens of countries its influence seen Covert and overt with a heavy hand Suppressing the people to maintain demand To support the interests of the USA You have made the world pay and pay And never be surprised that the memory lingers As we chop off your hands and corrupting fingers How much evil in the world you have sown How much your hypocritical power has grown How much grief and pain this policy sent us How much misery and bullets rent us Do you really believe you can be forgiven You arrogantly say your country is heaven But we see the callous acts you commit Undermining freedom and supporting ***** Never ever wonder so very wide-eyed Why the world doesn’t love you or stand by your side Your leaders are liars and have sold you a story That their actions were righteous, so pure and holy All they did they did in the name of their power They do this each second, each minute and hour At last they will turn their attention to you If you try for true freedom you'll see what they do They’ll use all the power of their cynical state And take your rights and treat them with hate These ugly elites are fascists of like mind They preserve their power to enslave Mankind Be aware of what the US does to the world Each time you see that starry flag unfurled And know we see you as the true terror here You killed all our dreams - now it's YOUR turn to fear [comments] => 2 [counter] => 270 [topic] => 41 [informant] => Steeleyes [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => political )
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