Paroles Who Will Tell the People de David Rovics

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The CIA is pushing crack in the ghettos of LAWhile the food crops in Columbia get sprayed by the DEAThe FBI is reading your email with something called the carnivoreAnd the rich are getting richer while the poor are staying poorThey're launching nuclear-powered ships up into spaceOne little accident could wipe out half the human raceAnd they're putting radioactive waste into your silverwareOr maybe your toaster or perhaps your wheelchairThe Air Force is bombing people in Iraq every other dayThey don't like the government so the children have to payThe ozone hole is spreading and the sheep are going blindWhile the US spends more on arms than the rest of the world combinedJournalists are getting fired from San Jose to AtlantaWhen they write about reality, not a fluff piece for FantaA death threat every week and sometimes life is shortWhen the truth is too dangerous for someone to reportWho will tell the people that free speech is a ruseThe corporations run the country and then they make the newsIs it media or mind control, heroic victories or crimesWho will tell the people that we're living in these timesThe cancer rates are skyrocketing though people are smoking lessIf you live near a nuke your life is bound to be a messClean water's almost gone all over the earthAnd what's left they want to privatize and see how much it's worthChevron is gunning down the students of NigeriaTurning the land to waste while the babies die of diphtheriaAnd the weather's getting hotter, the world's forests are on firePretty soon Brazil will be one giant funeral pyreWho will tell the people that free speech is a ruseThe corporations run the country and then they make the newsIs it media or mind control, heroic victories or crimesWho will tell the people that we're living in these timesOne in three adult Americans cannot read or writeAnd their children go to bed hungry every nightAnd two million US citizens are rotting behind barsAnd while they're there they're working hard building parts for carsAnd the Army's running torture schools to keep the earth under controlAnd they're relocating Navajos so they can mine some extra coalOur taxes pay McDonalds to sell tumors in ShanghaiWhile a hundred thousand poisoned vets are just about to dieWho will tell the people that free speech is a ruseThe corporations run the country and then they make the newsIs it media or mind control, heroic victories or crimesWho will tell the people that we're living in these timesAnd the people are resisting wherever you may goAnd this is the single biggest fear that they don't want you to knowFrom New Delhi to New Mexico there are battles going onAnd the darkest hour is just before the dawnAnd in Berkeley and New York they're raiding radio stationsTrying to turn the voice of the people into the voice of the corporationsWe will seize the airwaves, wipe the swear off of our browStand and face the beast and shout, "Democracy Now!"Who will tell the people that free speech is a ruseThe corporations run the country and then they make the newsIs it media or mind control, heroic victories or crimesWho will tell the people that we're living in these times

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