War of Wages

Our country has been high jacked
By CEOs who fuckin owe us
Takin our tax dollars
So they can get a bigger bonus

Politicians are no better
Their pockets are getting lined
Lobbyists are helping them steal
All that’s yours and mine

For a second we had a voice
And it screamed for change
No more dirty dealings
But to them it was a game

They think that they're on high
In their seats of power
Expecting the little people
To be crushed and cower

But we gotta rise up
Gotta knock em off their throne
Take back all our money
Deal them a fatal blow

If we don’t show strength
We'll never get this country back
We'll keep getting run over
When they sneak attack

They took all our jobs
And no one said a thing
Only an idiot would think
That we wouldn't feel the sting

Now we got no money
No way to get around
People out of work now
In every single town

There are families everywhere
That no longer have a home
Not enough money
To buy themselves a bone

And every single day
The situation grows worse
We loaned billions of dollars
That they don't want to reimburse

They want us all to be consumed
With greed and lust
To take our minds off of the problems
Till we're broke and bust

Well guess what
We’re all completely broke
We all turned out our wallets
Except for the richest folk

But the richest are the ones
Sittin back, they got it made
Livin real cozy
Off the bailout that we paid

The war we wage
Is a war of wages
It's a vicious cycle
That will last the ages
The war we wage
Is a war of wages
If we don't fight back
Nothing ever changes

There’s a war on drugs
There’s a war on crime
They shove it down our throats
On the news all the time

Where is the war
On pharmaceutical prices?
Every time I get sickly
I got a major crisis

I’m forking out my money
Hand over fist
To make sure that aint a single damned
Pill that I missed

Drugs with side effects
Worse than the disease
But we keep coming back
Crawlin on our hands and knees

Doesn’t matter if it makes our minds
Rotten and rank
With every pill that we take
They got more dollars in the bank

And the war on crime
Aint nothing but a joke
It’s a lot of mirrors
And a lot of smoke

The ones stealing our future
Still haven’t been stopped
They throw money around
And get all the charges dropped

Is that justice?
Is that what it's about?
If you're poor you go to jail
If you're rich you get an out

There needs to be a change
And it’s got to happen now
The kind of stuff that’s going on
We just can not allow

I’ll stand up on my soap box
I’ll scream it everyday
But it won’t make a difference
If you don’t do the same

The war we wage
Is a war of wages
It's a vicious cycle
That will last the ages
The war we wage
Is a war of wages
If we don't fight back
Nothing ever changes