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作曲 : David Stefan Rovics |
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When you're working two jobs and living in a tent |
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When a house costs a million bucks and you can't pay the rent |
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When politicians say they'll help but it keeps getting worse |
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Each time the landlord lobby pulls the strings of the purse |
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When the human right to housing isn't even part of the debate |
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You know you're living in a failed state |
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When millions of citizens are spending half their lives |
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Locked up in a prison for trying to survive |
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When laws must be broken just to have a place to stay |
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When the prisons pay the senators to look the other way |
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If you have to be a criminal to put food upon your plate |
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You know you're living in a failed state |
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When you're facing climate breakdown |
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When the trees are all on fire |
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When half the country's underwater |
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When a climate change denier |
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Runs the nation |
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And the opposition party votes for oil rigs and pipelines |
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This is not so much a country as it is a corporation |
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Buckling under its weight |
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You know you're living in a failed state |
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When your nation is an empire facing daily blowback |
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And the only thing your leaders can think to do is attack |
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Bipartisan consensus that we need to spend |
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Seven-hundred billion before the year's end |
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On a military budget to 'make America great' |
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You know you're living in a failed state |
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When almost every day some psycho with a gun |
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Has to open fire on a crowd before it's done |
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When a music festival becomes a free-fire zone |
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And all they can say is 'it's okay, he was acting alone' |
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Buy some armor, pray to God, and hide behind a gate |
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You know you're living in a failed state |
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You know you're living in a failed state |
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You know you're living in a failed state |
