One Slice of the Occupie, Please Lyrics


Dollar, dollar on the wall, make me rich and fuck ‘em all!

This current crisis which we’re all facing is not the result

of the selfishness of a few investment bankers.

It is the inevitable consequence of an economic system

that rewards cut -throat competition at every level of society.

LYRICS

A system driven by competition for ever -increasing profit

cannot be sustained perpetually,

as one day everything that can be bought and sold

will be capital held in the hands of a few.

Now that almost everything has been fed into the fire,

the system is collapsing

and it’s leaving even its former beneficiaries out in the cold.

Without redistributing wealth the economic cycle stops

and the profits dry up,

which leads to higher unemployment rates.

Therefore, no more real products can be sold

and capitalists can continue making profits

only by speculating on future returns.

But like any house of cards, debt can’t be built up forever.

Eventually someone calls it in.

The house of cards collapsed under its own weight in 2008,

when it occurred even to the last one

that the expected future returns could never materialize.

So why are we still fed with scraps from the table of an oligarchic few?

Why are we still taking part in the annual stock market crash derby?

We are the voice that’s speaking out against your gambling with lives, we will speak out against your greed crimes

behind drawn velvet curtains

and we will take back what has been ours all along!

We take out loans and struggle to pay rent

while you bathe in your money bins

and figure out “new ways to rob hard -working people blind”*.

We’ve had enough time’s come for us to rise!

We are the voice of all

who’ve put their trust in your system that’s failed.

Your system has failed!