Lyrics

Fed little more than rice and beans
now you say you’ll replace us with machines
that never eat, never sleep, never trouble, and they don’t complain
no they don’t complain

You’ve stopped paying out for our injuries
cause you found someone better who will work for free
who’ll never quit and who’ll get twice as much done in half the time
and you’ll save a dime
and we got nothing
but we want something
if you got nothing
and you want something
it ain’t working

They’re getting theirs when will I get mine
I’m not pounding the pavement I’m walking the picket line
you wanna do it with me?
Pulled every way and pushed too far
don’t go pounding the pavement, come walk on the picket line
we’re gonna show em who we are

farmers in fields and teachers
the honest preachers and the crooked ones
the rubes
we are the daughters sons
who built the roads, we’ll break em
put out the fire gonna make em
come on
come help me burn it down
and before it cools and hardens
we’ll build our gardens on em
sooner begun
sooner we’re done
because I’m tired of being nice
I’m fucking tired of eating beans and rice
while you get the goods, we pay the price

believe the rich get richer
each dime the poor get poorer
somehow it never trickles down
nickels to pennies, counting days til the next thing steady comes
it’s tough
it’s not enough
but is anybody listening?
is everybody listening now
I know
come on, come in, let’s go
two heads are better than one
come everybody we’ll shut it all down
come everyone let’s shut it all down

your silver and gold’s little hold on me
but I’m not gonna beg for the things I need
and deserve
a lot of nerve hold my hand tell me it’s okay
when it’s not okay
and if in the end they do silence me
they can cover my eyes
I don’t need to see
because I know that it’s all by design these dividing lines
between you and I
and we got nothing
and we want something
yeah we want something
yeah we want something
and so we’re walking