Here’s how it works, baby

This is how it will be

Sell your soul for money, baby

It’s the economy.

Work, beg, borrow and steal

Until you’ve got a pile

Walk all over anyone

To go your extra mile.

Invest in the stock exchange

In obscene corporate greed

Never mind the CEOs living like Caesars

While most the world’s in need

Never mind the slave laborers

Making all the cheap stuff

The clothes you wear

The crap you use

Just remember life is rough.

Domination and pollution

Enforced by the bald eagle’s flock

Anyone who resists in the Third World hells

Will end up bombed or shot.

Let’s all go to Walmart now

Have a little shopping spree

Smile at the underpaid hopeless helpers

Scrambling for rotten fruit from the rotten tree.

This is how it works, baby

This is how it is

Give your blood for oil, baby

Give your first born kid.

Everything depends on fossil fuel

Deep beneath desert sand

Your SUV, your pickup truck

Your way of life so grand.

If We are not the government

And corporations rule

Then We are helpless to change

Our world to kind from cruel.

Greed or Need Poem © 2011 by Phil Coyote , All rights reserved

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