Well old Adam Smith, he gave us this myth
'bout how the market will self-regulate
But élite business schemes would still just be dreams
Without the arms of the State
If you want to know that they mean when they say
"We're gonna open up your markets for our free trade"
Well just ask the ghosts of all those who've been killed
For refusing to bow down before the dollar bill..
The invisible hand of the market
is only one of two
Wielded by the corporate élite
and dressed in red, white, and blue
In one fist an M-16 rifle,
in the other fist a thousand dollar bill
If the right fist doesn't get you,
then the other one… surely will.
Cargill, Monsanto, Merck, or Union Carbide, they go by so many names
But for the land and the people destroyed by their greed, the story is always the same
McDonald's requires McDonald Douglass, United Fruit needed US Marines
The freedom of their markets supported by fascist regimes.
The rhetoric is so thick as they tell us we're free
And we've got to see right though their lies
It's not freedom to choose our won destinies,
It's freedom to choose our demise
You can die for their money, you can die by their guns
They'll let you choose your own fate
But if you get in the way of their profits
You can be sure you'll be burnt at the stake.
The invisible hand of the market
is only one of two
Wielded by the corporate elite
and dressed in red, white, and blue
In one fist an M-16 rifle,
in the other fist a thousand dollar bill
If the right fist doesn't get you,
then the other one… surely will.
Don't need no great hand comin' down from the sky
Or soldiers in olive drab marchin' on my
To discipline, regulate, liberalize, legislate—we decline
Without you we were just doin' fine
The invisible hand of the market
is only one of two
Wielded by the corporate elite
and dressed in red, white, and blue
In one fist an M-16 rifle,
in the other fist a thousand dollar bill
If the right fist doesn't get you,
then the other one… surely will...
'bout how the market will self-regulate
But élite business schemes would still just be dreams
Without the arms of the State
If you want to know that they mean when they say
"We're gonna open up your markets for our free trade"
Well just ask the ghosts of all those who've been killed
For refusing to bow down before the dollar bill..
The invisible hand of the market
is only one of two
Wielded by the corporate élite
and dressed in red, white, and blue
In one fist an M-16 rifle,
in the other fist a thousand dollar bill
If the right fist doesn't get you,
then the other one… surely will.
Cargill, Monsanto, Merck, or Union Carbide, they go by so many names
But for the land and the people destroyed by their greed, the story is always the same
McDonald's requires McDonald Douglass, United Fruit needed US Marines
The freedom of their markets supported by fascist regimes.
The rhetoric is so thick as they tell us we're free
And we've got to see right though their lies
It's not freedom to choose our won destinies,
It's freedom to choose our demise
You can die for their money, you can die by their guns
They'll let you choose your own fate
But if you get in the way of their profits
You can be sure you'll be burnt at the stake.
The invisible hand of the market
is only one of two
Wielded by the corporate elite
and dressed in red, white, and blue
In one fist an M-16 rifle,
in the other fist a thousand dollar bill
If the right fist doesn't get you,
then the other one… surely will.
Don't need no great hand comin' down from the sky
Or soldiers in olive drab marchin' on my
To discipline, regulate, liberalize, legislate—we decline
Without you we were just doin' fine
The invisible hand of the market
is only one of two
Wielded by the corporate elite
and dressed in red, white, and blue
In one fist an M-16 rifle,
in the other fist a thousand dollar bill
If the right fist doesn't get you,
then the other one… surely will...
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