Stand ye and deliver

Robbed each week of what we’ve toiled to fill anothers coffer

Stand ye and deliver or a cell’s the terms on offer

Off to oil the cogs and gears of the machinery of the state,

a tribute to a system that we share no means to create

And just what do we purchase with this never ending cost ?

A voice that has been neutered to a tick within a box

A leadership of followers adrift without a rudder,

as they fight and race to suckle at the bloated corporate udder

Feeding us perspectives built on biases and lies

Transparency subverted through the wool over our eyes

Words like roaches scuttle as they flee from any light

Never moving forwards as we glance from left to right

Pension plans for parasites as our own futures are drained

Environmental degradation is the only thing sustained

A lumbering legal system from which all sense has been removed,

and yet the dollars role in judgements needs no lawyers to be proved   

Taxed of what we sweat to make by those who earn it not,

and yet the largest corporations pay much less from what they’ve got,

subsidized with dollars legally stolen from the masses,

corporate welfare as we bail out big business when it crashes

Never underestimate the power of a question,

and remember all that’s fed to you is not fit for digestion

Saying “that’s just how it is” forgoes how things could be

if we refuse to find acceptance for this systems tyranny