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This economy has been taken under siege |
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By an industry that's been dictated militarily |
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Dependent on oil under foreign soil |
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Like a locomotive waiting to feel the water boil |
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And our jobs in new technology are going over seas |
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To Bangalore and Tokyo and back to old Paris |
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But if you're looking for job security look where your |
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Nation's spending all of your taxation |
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Je ne suis pas la bourgeoisie, we are the proletariat |
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The house can't stand without the foundation |
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Even though you bury it |
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And even though my hand prepared the food you eat, |
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You wouldn't stop to shake it |
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If you saw me on the street |
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And we haven't changed a thing since 1944 |
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The business men in office make a killing with the war |
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Rosie you don't have to rivet anymore |
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but your living wage is what you're fighting for |
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Father's going to guarantee to build a better bomb |
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If uncle Sam will guarantee a paycheck every month |
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Brother's in the infantry so he can go to college |
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After his 4th and final tour |
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And go ahead and call me a communist |
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Because I care for the welfare of my people |
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I'm born your equal but don't you think its evil |
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To own islands of property in a sea of starving |
