This goes out to all the unemployed workers in the United States

[meow2u3]

...who have lost their jobs to outsourcing, corporate greed, and the so-called "global economy."

We Work the Factories
(an updated, Americanized version of “We Work the Black Seam” by Sting)

This country’s changed for good
Your economic theory said it would
It's hard for us to understand
We can't give up our jobs the way we should
Your obscene profits reek
We’re training our replacements as we speak
We matter more than dollars and cents
Your economic theory makes no sense

One day in a globalized age
They may understand our rage
They lay off workers they can't control
And bury the truth in their twisted souls
Middle-aged folks were to be let go
Younger workers were paid too low
Unbridled greed for forty years let this cancer grow
We work the factories together

The crumbling plants abound
Three billion bucks of profits shut them down
We walk through pristine forest lands
And pave a million miles with our hands
Your dark satanic mills
Have murdered all our manufacturing skills
You can't exchange an outsourced hand
For all the poisoned air in Michigan

One day in a globalized age
They may understand our rage
They lay off workers they can't control
And bury the truth in their twisted souls
Middle-aged folks were to be let go
Younger workers were paid too low
Unbridled greed for forty years let this cancer grow
We work the factories together

Your evil runs so deep
Intimidating Congress while we sleep
Should corporate greed accelerate
There will exist no more United States


One day in a globalized age
They may understand our rage
They lay off workers they can't control
And bury the truth in their twisted souls
Middle-aged folks were to be let go
Younger workers were paid too low
Unbridled greed for forty years let this cancer grow
We work the factories together

[Wednesdays]

1. K&R

:kick:

[tomreedtoon]

2. Yeah, "globalization" helped a lot, didn't it?

Now all workers know how screwed they are, and how they can't use any legal means to address their issues. Like the Babel Fish, increased communication between distant people just makes them angrier.

Funny how this little folk song builds up the anger against the rich and powerful, makes the situation look hopeless, but doesn't take the next logical step and advocates violence. Seems hypocritical to me.