The Dying And The Dead Lyrics - Aus Rotten

Thiry thousand auto workers have gone to work to find 

That they've been downsized form the assembly to the unemployment line 

The employed seeking job security content with what employers give 

Thinning out the job market keeps the workers competitive 

The upper one percent receive the tax breaks, social program cut's commence 

Educational funds take a back seat to America's defense 

These education cuts are an investment in the prison industry 

An occupational restructuring towards a slave labor economy 

The chance of survival on death row disappears,theirright to appeal is deprived 

Worker strength and solidarity depletes with union officials bribed 

Raising taxes to build sports stadiums while the homeless are ignored 

Refusing to supply the health care benefits most people can't afford 

The newly founded citizen review boards' members are all police 

The gap widens between the cost of living and the inflation increase 

Those in power own the media machine it's the vehicle to their views 

They bury all of their corruption under fluff reported news 

They bombard us with statistics to influence public opinion 

The more ridiculous the lie the more people seem to listen 

It's the people with no money that are responsible for the rest of us being poor 

We'll just eliminate the welfare system to even up the score 

Our conditions never imporve no matter how many programs we stop 

The money always seems to circulate back to the people at the top 

The occasionl whining criticisms keep the public satisfied 

The rest are busy escaping reality with drugs the CIA supplied 

It's always the most oppressed who easily fall victim to ignorance 

Even with all that they've been through they still pledge allegiance 

To their country and flag that has caused all of their grievous pain 

Patriotism leads to natonalism which in turn proceeds to fascism 

Poor and working class people are the tools of sick corporate perseverance 

Shit on little puppets exploited in the trials of human dominance 

But still the pride goes on blindly and in so-called freedom they gloat 

Waving the flag but cursing the politicians they think they elect when they vote 

Behind the trails of our peacekeepers lie the dying and the dead 

There are millions of starving chilren that are waiting to be fed 

Because executive orders demand that economic sanctions are applied 

If they'd have bowed down to our pressure, relief may have just arrived 

As the worlds only super power we rule without regret 

We don't let these children survive and grow up to be a threat 

Love of this country is based on nothing but the fear of living somewhere worse 

And gratitude shouldn't be the reaction to someone else being slaughtered first