Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Don't know who to vote for on 21 August?

Rant

Woke up this morning, can’t believe this town
It’s so shiny on the surface, and so dirty underground
You give your money to the government for hospitals and schools
But they keep it in the bank, and they dig up all the roads
Now we’ve got ourselves a railway, to keep the business going
Gotta keep the people moving, gotta keep the traffic flowing

But I’m here to tell you people, that you won’t get far
If you’re hungry or you’re bleeding, and you haven’t got a car
To drive you to the clinic, ‘cos the doctor took a break
And he’s living with the rich folk on the golf course by the lake
While you’re hangin’ onto nothin’, all the people passin’ by
And not a single one of them will look you in the eye

So you’re talking to the government, and they say ‘sorry mate’
You were born too late for the welfare state
You should go and get a job so you can look after yourself
And then you’ll have the cash to pay the doctor for your health
‘Cos your mother hit the bottle and you were no concern
To your father as he left after paying for his turn

So they wonder why you’re angry, why you don’t give a fuck
As you’re telling the police to ‘c’mon and try your luck’
While they’re standing in the street with their weapons drawn
This is the middle of Australia and they’ve pulled out all their guns
And they’re pointing them at you because you don’t fit in
You’re a poor man ‘mongst the rich, you should take it on the chin

But you have to be defiant, you can’t take it lying down
There was a time when a small man meant something in this town
So you take a step forward as they shout ‘back off!’
And the last thing that you hear is the ringing of the shots
While you feel your knees weaken, and the blackness in your head
Is the finish of this country where you were born and bred

Australia’s better off now we’re the fifty-first state
We can try all of our terrorists at Camp x-ray
We can go overseas and fight other people’s wars
While the government lies about what we’re fighting for
We can overthrow the leaders the evil axis states
And we can tell just by looking who’re the people that we hate

We’ve got people banging on about democracy
While they teach you to conform in the land of the free
We get to vote for our leaders every couple of years
And in between the vote they don’t wanna hear
But they tell you that they listen and you got a choice
But all the choices are the same, so raise up your voice

And say, ‘Fuck the vote!’

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