| This economy has been taken under siege
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| By an industry that’s been dictated militarily
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| Dependent on oil under foreign soil
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| Like a locomotive waiting to feel the water boil
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| And our jobs in new technology are going over seas
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| To Bangalore and Tokyo and back to old Paris
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| But if you’re looking for job security look where your
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| Nation’s spending all of your taxation
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| Je ne suis pas la bourgeoisie, we are the proletariat
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| The house can’t stand without the foundation
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| Even though you bury it
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| And even though my hand prepared the food you eat
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| You wouldn’t stop to shake it
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| If you saw me on the street
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| And we haven’t changed a thing since 1944
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| The business men in office make a killing with the war
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| Rosie you don’t have to rivet anymore
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| But your living wage is what you’re fighting for
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| Father’s going to guarantee to build a better bomb
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| If uncle Sam will guarantee a paycheck every month
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| Brother’s in the infantry so he can go to college
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| After his 4th and final tour
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| And go ahead and call me a communist
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| Because I care for the welfare of my people
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| I’m born your equal but don’t you think its evil
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| To own islands of property in a sea of starving |