A. D. Winans
There at it again
They say they want to clean-up the Tenderloin
Going after the massage parlors and prostitutes
In this annual crack down on sin charade
When the real sin is the homeless the runaways
Battered women and children gay bashing
Wall Street criminals and backroom political deals
It’s all status quo business as usual
As we hire more cops to protect business interests
Build more prisons to discourage revolution
The finest minds of our generation enslaved
In hallowed University classrooms
Or working in scientific labs creating new weapons
Of mass destruction
The hungry jaws of capitalism chewing up the poor
And institutionalizing the elderly
But not before squeezing every drop of blood
Out of the working class man and woman
The young dance like puppets on a string
In a Disney Land production
As our elected representatives primp
In front of their mirrors
Preparing to destroy timber land and rain forests
Marching to the voting polls to keep the
Status quo alive for another 2000 years
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