We raise the flags and statues to our mission we've spoken out
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in slogans and in campaigns
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talked and talked on almost every issue
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where oppression of the masses is the constant theme
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but what does this mean to a little town in Iowa
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where the jobs have gone downstream down south and out
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where their fingers used to work to the bone all day
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profits rise and fall and starvation is a game
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where is the food that used to cover their table
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where is the sense of pride at the end of the day
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to the face of a thriving corporation what could a dying family
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possibly say
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on the face of every American worker
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is the constant fear that their job won't remain
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as the C.E.O. is planning his vacation
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to kill or be killed is the nature of the beast
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stand in line take a number you sell your soul
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then watch it crumble
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into a pile of rubble that used to be
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your job
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your life
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your family's daily bread dry and stale malnourished kids
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the house is sold for a degrading bid
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do we continue to talk or do we take a hammer to their chains
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When Rhetoric Dies
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| Boy Sets Fire |
