United States of Hypocracy

"I'm not going to be lied to any more"
Why do you coral them into street corners called Hell?

Nobody chooses to live in Hell
Were you born into Hell, too?
Does your school teachers teach hell to you,
for lack of a real answer?

We knew the futility of the drug war in the '80s
Police work stopped being done, how's that you say?

Juke the stats, baby
Juke the stats, and there'll be a promotion for you...

The kids of Havenotville see through the economic lie
Ask them on the street corner if they see through the lie that always will be
"the truth" for you and I.

The moneyed interests cast off the black, brown and poor
"We don't need them any more", any more;
You're allowed to be discarded by the law; the centurions
now can coral you and let you kill each other off...
Lowers population and improves the stats of those with jobs,
"don't be soft on crime", sweep sweep them into the corner gutter

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer, problem with this??
"Are you a socialist!?"

Everybody needs a sense of national, economic shared purpose...
Change the law: decriminalize drugs or legalize them--take as much blood out of it as you can, let those of us go
to rehab and job programs so we can rebuild the abandoned
unions and working classes; do it now! Return our purpose!
Even if the good ol' US of A doesn't need them anymore...

Anymore...your self feels this to it's core core
Not gonna take it anymore? What are you gonna do for for?
Sustenance.

Will it change? Have you been threatened to the point where
you will put your neck on the line?
They will try to placate you with a few table scraps
and then they will lie lie lie

Irony is the new reality...If you subscribe to an institution
you believe in, it will find a way to betray you. BETRAY YOU.

What say you? What say you now? Tired of the business model whore?
Rotten to it's core...but there's still more money more more more,
not your's. though. Yeah, they're getting richer as we breathe

Your trusted officials will juke the stats so you assuredly will not
know the truth any more
Waves of fraud will continue to erupt until journalism is restored, but
the oligarchy doesn't want us to have power any more any more...

What can we draw from our street corners any more? our empire teaches us
to be rotten to the core core core

We should love one and all, care for even thief and plunderer, what is different as
we are one one one under the sun on that street corner, let us say a prayer
for us all...so we may salvage a future for laborers and recycled plunderers
Together, yes on the street corner, we'll settle the score
and maybe reincarnate what we once stood for...
We should keep demanding an answer for one and for all;
Weren't we guaranteed some rights once; life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? How about outside the good ol' US of A as well?

I'm not going to be lied to anymore.