Rasul Allah - The Great Depression lyrics

[Intro] I don't have to tell you things are bad Everybody knows things are bad It's a depression Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job The dollar buys a nickel's work Banks are going bust Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter Punks are running wild in the street And there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do And there's no end to it [Verse 1: Cosmic Crusader] Modern money mechanics of the fractional reserve Loans loaned out of loans, this principal is absurd Government bonds are bondage, instruments of debt Working cla** mouths to feed, got no sustenance left So to make ends meet they submit to employment Treasury manage liability deployment Wage slave trade of the federal deficit No predetermined limit to how bad they'll let it get Paralyzed economy of wealth displaced Concept of greenbacks effectively disgraced Commissary notes, with no real consideration Contractual defaults for closed ramifications Wage war gets what you earned your wage for Lose a third of your income, what have you paid for? Interest rates are underrated, people feel indated More money in the system, more debt is created [Interlude] We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat And we sit watching our TV's While some local newscaster tells us that today We had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes As if that's the way it's supposed to be We know things are bad - worse than bad They're crazy It's like everything everywhere is going crazy So we don't go out anymore [Verse 2: Atun Sen Geb] [?] in a hybrid vehicle On the roof, big a** [?] economic recessions [Interlude] I don't want you to protest I don't want you to riot I don't want you to write to your congressman Because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write I don't know what to do about the depression a And the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street All I know is that first you've got to get mad You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs I want you to get up right now and go to the window Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' [Verse 3: Rasul Allah]