PETS OR MEAT?
We build their houses and we build their
cars/REDISTRIBUTE THE POWER, REDISTRIBUTE THE WEALTH/We made
the rockets they want to send to Mars/We dig their ditches and we ruin
our health/We made their computers, we made their wealth/The harder you
work, the less money you make/The more you have, the more you can take/We
always catch it when the shit hits the fan/It's time to take what's ours,
it's time to fight back, man/I don't want to live like a corporate king/I
don't need a brand new car or lots of flashy things/ I'm more or less content
with what I've got/But when the economy turns bad again you can bet I'll
feel the shock/The system may seem solid but it's shaky as hell/Don't wait
for it to bottom out before you start to yell/We've got to fight back now
before we're already beat/ Put your fist in the air and your feet on the
street/If you're doing fucking nothing while people get beat to shit/You're
no solution to the problem you're part of it/The status quo's intolerable
and can only last so long/WE HAVE A THIRD WORLD FUTURE IF WE LEAVE IT
ALONE/I demand jobs for all at a living wage/Take the power from the
bastards who determine what we get paid/ We've got to organize and increase
what we've gained/So we don't live out our lives poor and in pain/I demand
real health care that's available to us all/No more nose jobs when our
backs against the wall/Who fucking cares what the upper class pleases/When
children are dying of preventable diseases/We'll force an end to this farce
they call the drug war/It's just another tactic to control the poor/People
might get dangerous all cramped in the projects/So they keep them contained
with the absurdest of pretexts/All political prisoners have to be released/Until
we see some justice you'll see no peace/With impunity you wield the most
murderous violence/You can lock them away but they'll never be silenced/The
pillage of the third world has got to end/ Slaughtering the peasants, again
and again/They don't support freedom at any junction/They just enforce
the service function/I'll never join their army, I'll never fight their
wars/They give to the rich what they rob from the poor/A worldwide Mafia
that enforces submission/With bombers, and missiles, and nuclear fission/Learn
about the lies they teach us in school/ Knowledge is power, don't get fucking
fooled/They'll teach you about the uniqueness of the American way/But it
never existed and it doesn't today/They'll try to snare you with the Christian
right/Set the hook in your brain and draw the line tight/Well abortion
is a woman's right/And if you try to force different I'll be willing to
fight/They'll try to divert us with hatred but they're out of luck/I don't
care who you kiss, I don't care how you fuck/People of the same sex showing
human affection/Is not the problem in this vicious nation/They'll provide
you a scapegoat - a drug dealer or immigrant/To dump on the blame for where
your standard of living went/Don't be fooled by that racist jizz/You don't
need to look far to see where the real enemy is/Corporations lay off thousands
while making billions of dollars/Closing the factories, choking blue collars/Economic
terrorists who can turn your world upside down/Today Flint, Michigan/Tomorrow
your town/PETS OR MEAT?/You call this free?/PETS OR MEAT?/
Remember Roger and Me?/PETS OR MEAT?/This isn't going away/PETS
OR MEAT?/ WHAT ARE WE TODAY/Is it written in stone that it should
be this way?/That a few should command while the rest should obey?/That
we play no part in how society is run?/That our only recourse is a brick
or a gun?/
That a few should have, while the
rest should have not?/That people should starve while food sits and rots?/
That they send rockets to Mars while people freeze in the street?/That
we have no power and most have little to eat?/These problems won't be solved
by the system's solution/It's going to take a revolution/For your survival,
for your dignity, for your health: REDISTRIBUTE THE POWER,
REDISTRIBUTE THE WEALTH.
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