Economic Hitmen

Economic Hitmen (add your flavor / remix this tune)

Melody and Lyrics: Lonnie Ray Atkinson (shout out to John Perkins for the title)

Vocals: Lonnie Ray Atkinson

Instrumental track: ccMixter artist The Spirit of Light

This song is about Economic Hitmen and the global finance racket. If you are interested (or you think you know someone that might be interested) in adding your own music (or even new vocals) to the mix, you can download the raw a capellas here at ccMixter (just click on the word "download" under the word "stream"). When you are done, you can email me any mp3s here.

All contributions will be considered Creative Commons License: Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0.

Your time and talent is greatly appreciated.





Lyrics:

chorus one:

when the soul of capital reaches out, it's not to save you, it's for profit, baby

and when one of the bargaining chips is death, it's not the market, it's extortion

 

verse one:

- world bank - who runs it / imf - who runs it / wto - who runs it / the world - who runs it

- the contracts - who writes them / the projects - who works them / the development - who's it benefit / the loans - who pays them back

- conditions - what are these / conditions - who decides / conditions - who do they help / conditions - who do they hurt

 

chorus two:

  just because a despot signs his name, it's not the will of the people, baby

  and when the one you elected sells you out, it's not democracy, it's corruption

 

bridge one:

when promise rests in access

and poverty is a given

what chances do we have

against economic hit men

 

verse two:

- world bank - who runs it / imf - who runs it / wto - who runs it / the world - who runs it

- resources - who stole them / state industries - who sold them / our labor - your property / austerity - no security

- displacement - pollution / indebtedness - collusion / poor schools - poor healthcare / poor people - don't nobody care

 

chorus three:

do the leaders even know who their people are, if not, then how do we remind them, baby

and if the rich won't hear our songs of grief, maybe they'll hear our songs of anger

 

bridge two:

are we supposed to die here

while you're there getting fatter

well, what do you suggest, man

or do we even matter

 

outro:

we are people, we are people, do we matter, we are people

we are people, we are people, do we matter, we are people

we are people, we are people, yes we matter, we are people

we are people, we are people, yes we matter, we are people

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