3. A Dollar

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Your war with great guns and huge thrones
my life is but grass walkway to you though
For when you hop down, off your horse, and face the truth
Your bones create loans to give our youth
You've poisoned us all the way down to our fucking roots
Why do you, old man, decide my future?
For we are the people who will live it faced to smooth this?
Your wrinkly skin and your old gray hair hold wisdom but not morality
For why can't I just waste away and ignore this reality created by the fiends, the crooks
Left with nothing but a pile of rusted fish hooks
You didn't teach us how to swim or find the bait to feed the fish for my family to eat
But how can I forget your meetings when we can't even sleep

You represent the aim to destroy, but all your toys have killed our race
To keep the cameras away, to hide your face
Your sleeping on gold plated floors, but none of that money can feed your poor?
White House got all these rooms for you to shit on
Why don't you donate some square feet for us to live on?
My kids are hungry and I don't think Daddy's comin back
You try to tell them to breathe in the fucking air as their dinner, as a snack

But that just ain't right, the lies you tell them
For self empowerment is all that you can sell them.
Wrap a big bow around a fire and it's still gonna light
Running hoes, night women, but what are you doing tonight?
My America is land of the free, home of the fucking brave.
Make them children see that this is the land of our depraved.
Take a man with no money and work him to the bone, but you can snap your fingers and enjoy the slave man trip you on
I won't stop till your all dead
I'll pay taxes on the bullet in your head
Then we start war
Cause till then you carry your bags, too much money your back is sore
Fuck you, truly fuck you
this
is
war

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