The Commonwealth's Lyrics
Capitalism Killed Humanity
An economic system thriving on exploitation
with domineering ideals of privilege and capital
Divided into class based on political power with
the principals of hierarchy take presence over equality
Capitalism has to expand to survive
But what will happen when everything is industrialized?
It's not a matter of if we stop it - it's a matter of when
Because if we don't stop it there will be nothing left.
Power and wealth are distributed by class
a plutocratic power structure does it benefit the mass?
Poor people are starving while the upper class feasts
The middle class is ignoring this political disease
Capitalism has to expand to survive
But what will happen when everything is industrialized?
It's not a matter of if we stop it - it's a matter of when
Because if we don't stop it there will be nothing left.
Humanity - Commodified
Animals - Sacrificed
Environment - Industrialized
Minorities - Marginalized
Culture - Commercialized
Poverty - Vilified
Hatred - Intensified
Meaning -Trivialized
Women - Objectified
Society - Desensitized
Warfare - Glorified
Property - Sensationalized
Races - Subjugated
Conscience - Nullified
Workers - Dehumanized
Revolution - Justified
Capitalism has to expand to survive
But what will happen when everything is industrialized?
It's not a matter of if we stop it - it's a matter of when
Because if we don't stop it there will be nothing left.
Gender's Wealth
Stripped of dignity
Robbed of humanity
Forced into passivity
By the patriarchy
Sexual assault
Harassment and rape
It’s a sexual genocide
We are all guilty
Less that 5 percent
Of offender are found guilty
1 out of 3 womin
Assaulted in her lifetime
Every 2 minutes
Another womin raped
A crime with no boundaries
We are all guilty
Quick to use the word “progress”
But it’s just getting worse
With marital rape
Legal in 2 states
A crime of violence
A crime of power
If we permit the patriarch
We are all guilty
Honor Amung Thieves'
Steal from major corporations
Corporations grow stronger every single day
Every purchase made is money in their pockets
Bleeding all the workers and paving the earth
Deforestation and Exploitation
- Steal for the earth Steal for the workers -
Frito Lay is busting unions
Proctor & Gamble is killing animals
Wal*Mart is abusing children
Phillip Morris is poisoning people - Direct Action get the goods
Were the victims of a society based on multi-national corporate control. When a capitalist totalitarianism is in control we have no choice but to steal our food, clothes, and everything that has been stolen from us.
-Stealing is direct action x4
The economic hardship felt by appropriation, though often minimal, is still felt. By liberating products instead of purchasing them, we are attacking the corporations "owning" these products, intern, removing ourselves from that supportive role.
We need to fight back against corporate domination
Stealing is consuming but better then buying
Some of the greatest actions in history - Were acts of mass thievery
It is not a crime we have the right
Stop supporting those who fight against us
Stop supporting the enemy
List of Demands
We've been oppressed and demoralized by a system that corrupts
It exploits it's believers and alienates those who don't
A bureaucratic totalitarianism that terrorizes for profit
Society shadows business and the workers have never has a say
Marching through the streets with our list of demands - Marching through the streets holding hands
We demand Peace - Peace - Peace
We demand Equality - Equality - Equality
We demand Liberty - Liberty - Liberty
We demand Peace - Peace - Peace
We demand Equality - Equality - Equality
We demand Liberty - Liberty - Liberty
We demand Freedom - Freedom - Freedom
I'm educating my self and aiding in the education of others
Trying to improve a world thought to be beyond hope
(Due to the)Corporate administration of globalization and tyranny
And ignorance and apathy bred by political unrest
Marching through the streets with our list of demands - Marching through the streets holding hands
Brothers & Sisters we need each other
We'll be standing strong to right all that wrong
Today is the day to change tomorrow
True democracy and peace is what we want
Marching through the streets with our list of demands - Marching through the streets holding hands
Marching through the streets with our list of demands - Marching through the streets holding hands
Marching through the streets with our list of demands - Marching through the streets holding hands
Marching through the streets with our list of demands - Marching through the streets holding hands.
Supply & Demand (when will things change?)
When 40% of Maine’s children go to school hungry you must ask yourself, where is all of the food? Is there simply not enough? Or is it that we don’t know how to properly distribute it? Could it be because there is a dollar value on the food, an item necessary to sustain life? Why is it that over 85% of grains produced in the U.S. are fed to livestock? Couldn’t this food be used to feed hungry people? 245 million people live in the United States. 1.3 billion people could be fed from the food we feed the animals. A child dies of starvation every 2 seconds. 60 million people will starve to death this year. 56% of American agricultural land is used to produce beef. 20 vegans can live off the land that only 1 meat-eater can live off. With this information, we can clearly see that if we destroy the meat and dairy industry we will put a huge dent in the population of starving people. It is simply supply and demand.
When the farmers are paid not to grow wheat
Is it any wonder why there is not enough food to eat?
Animals are fed almost all of the food that we grow
Profit over people is the reason for starvation
When will the hunger stop? NOT UNTIL WE STOP IT
When will we have the food? NOT UNTIL WE TAKE IT
When will the people eat? NOT UNTIL WE FEED THEM
When will things change? NOT UNTIL WE CHANGE THEM
Aren’t you concerned about the starving people
Don’t you care about the dying animals
Can’t you see how the two are related
Or is your greed worth more then those lives?
When will the hunger stop? NOT UNTIL WE STOP IT
When will we have the food? NOT UNTIL WE TAKE IT
When will the people eat? NOT UNTIL WE FEED THEM
When will things change? NOT UNTIL WE CHANGE THEM
This animal-based diet that you consume
Creates a minimal amount of food
When the farmers are paid not to grow wheat
Is it ant wonder why there is not enough food to eat?
When will the hunger stop? NOT UNTIL WE STOP IT
When will we have the food? NOT UNTIL WE TAKE IT
When will the people eat? NOT UNTIL WE FEED THEM
When will things change? NOT UNTIL WE CHANGE THEM
When will the hunger stop? NOT UNTIL WE STOP IT
When will we have the food? NOT UNTIL WE TAKE IT
When will the people eat? NOT UNTIL WE FEED THEM
When will things change? NOT UNTIL WE CHANGE THEM
We feed the animals food that they don’t need -
We feed the people animals that they can’t eat
Tomorrow
There will come a day when we regret all that we've done
There will come a day when all hope is lost
As the lies are exposed you'll see how it all intertwines
As the lies are exposed you'll see we've bought our own death
Mass industrialization has set in
No water to drink and all the air is polluted
Only stumps for the squirrels to climb
The paper mills own all the clear-cut land
International paper opens another zoo
Profiting off the animals after raping their land
Animals kept in cages or domesticated
Because there's no natural environment left for them to live
All of the animals are nearly extinct
Only polluted water is left for the sea creatures
No fish exist in the poisoned rivers
And all of the oceans are coated in algae
Bottled water is all that's left to drink aquifers are now privately owned
Communal property now just a theory all that remains is private property
Lakes and streams have all been bought you can pay for the water or die of thirst
There is profit to be had at the expense of you I own it so what are you going to do?
You need to go somewhere you've got to buy the fuel It was mined from the ground but
now somebody owns it
All of the fossil fuels are owned by a company and we're taxed on the air that we consume
Only the purest air can be bought in a tank anything else well your chances
No trespassing signs on all of the land these signs hang off barbed fences
All of the property is own by a few the poor have none and neither do you
A jealous boyfriend trying to find you all the cops are hired out nobody to protect you.
The military is now privatized by the state
These armed guards roam our streets
Property wars are waged though out the world
The paramilitary is taking refuge in your house
Another job lost another factory opens
Machines made by machines now replace the workers
No use for us because they've got computers
Technology is teaching the masses of students
Students are being trained to protect privatization
What's the point soon that will be done by machines too
With Privilege Comes Responsability
People are dieing - The Earth is being destroyed
Workers explioted - Animals are tortured
Wars are waged - Poverty is rampent
Industrialized takeover - Corporations own us all
With privilege comes responsablity a responsablity to act It is our privilege that gives us the means
Aknowledge your privilege and fight for those who can't - We are all middle class
We have food to eat - Cloths on our back
While others starve - and frezze to death
So many things - to stuggle for
Find a cause in your heart - invest your time
With privilege comes responsablity a responsablity to act It is our privilege that gives us the means
Aknowledge your privilege and fight for those who can't - We are all middle class
Our class systems' set up - to keep us apart
Nothing will change unless - it starts with us
Our privilege can - be used as a tool
To create change - Liberate
With privilege comes responsablity a responsablity to act It is our privilege that gives us the means
Aknowledge your privilege and fight for those who can't - We are all middle class
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