There’s a war going on
All over the country
There’s a war going on
But it ain’t been declared
And if you want to see who’s fighting
You got to follow the money
See who’s paying the freight and who’s running scared
There’s a war going on
Even though you don’t hear it
But check out the food banks and the cold city streets
For collateral damage and the bandaged feet
Look in the doorways of the closed up shops
For the huddled bundled bodies of the forgotten lost
There’s a war going on
Where we fight with words
In courthouse chambers and legislatures
We write in the papers and the magazines
Right against left, no in-between
This war of words rages
Stretched out on all fronts
There’s a war going on
We’ve dug these deep trenches
And laid landmines across no man’s land
And there’s no mediation
No sign of peace talks
Just smokescreens and camouflage
And the bombs that get dropped
There’s a war going on
And its mean and its nasty
It’s all about ownership and resource extraction
Distribution of riches and wealth untold
The few get the most
The most get the shaft
Devil take the hindmost
So better watch your back
David Trudel © 2013
I’m afraid there are too many people who want something for nothing. In the end, they are either the winners of the “victims”, depending on which side you stand.
It also depends on how you define “something” and “nothing”. Mainstream culture places far too high a value on things that ultimately don’t matter.
I just happened across this interview with Noam Chomsky who lays out an interesting perspective: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/talktojazeera/2013/01/201311294541129427.html