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Patriot Mean Streak

from Folk Allah Ewe by Michael Psycho

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The first ones rising with the morning sun
Are the ones getting all the least
They’re just the most useful to the ones who use them
For their methods and their means
A buck means a buck to those who mob them up
And put them piecemeal on the lines
A child is a child but a worker’s a worker
It depends upon the border lines

The masses want less taxes so they
Point the fingers at the poverty
Like to suffer malnutrition is a privilege
And their pittance sets anyone free
A soul gets caught up in their reason and games
And gets sucked into a trap of assistance
While the robber barons get away with the breaks
And the statesmen offer no resistance

Now isn’t this a neat thing
They got you high tech and fantasizing
About the life you could be leading
If you really weren’t right here

And now in the factory they step to the line
And they beat a kid for sneaking
Off to the bathroom one time too many
‘Cause you’ve gotta have expensive feet
So you can let the world know you’re above the water
And you’re not some brokedick meat
And for three bucks a day some kid misses school
And he gets his family something to eat

This happens every day all over the planet
And the haves refuse to acknowledge
They just walk around like the zombie dead
Trying to put their kids through college
They moan and they groan about the welfare moms
Like there’s glory in collecting food stamps
It can’t help but make an old cynic like me
Wonder when they’re going to open the camps

Gotta be a patriot
Wanna be a patriot?
Gotta have a patriot mean streak.

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from Folk Allah Ewe, released November 5, 1996
Lyrics/Music: M. Psycho © 1996 Black Hole Media Co. All Rights Reserved.

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