What Ever the Market Will Bear

from Prison Planet Earth by Downtown Rats

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Whatever the market will bear  What is the meaning of our lives? Why are we here? Since the dawn of time  The question through the years
Profits We’re here for profits Separate them from their wealth Move the products off the shelf Profits We’re here for profits The only meaning of all life
We have got to get their money At any cost Even if it all gets bloody And lives are lost
Transfer in the dead of night They’ve all been squashed We’ll do it out of sight Keep them brainwashed
What will save our lives? From the puppeteers A trash pile we climb Of novelties and souvenirs

Pockets They fill their pockets Regardless of anybody’s health They Keep it all for themselves Profits We’re here for profits The only meaning of all life
We have got to get their money At any cost Even if it all gets bloody And lives are lost
Transfer in the dead of night They’ve all been squashed We’ll do it out of sight Keep them brainwashed

Whatever the market is willing bear This is going to be our share Bombard them with advertising campaigns Exploit the weaknesses within their brains
We’re going to take whatever we can Clawing and scratching whatever they’ll stand Wellbeing and health don’t mean a thing To maximize the profits the only song that we sing
Millions and billions and trillions we take Civilians opinions don’t mean a thing Building these prisons so we can retreat Constructing a system that only repeats
The onslaught continues day after day Trading the hours, they send us their pay Working for products they then throw away Losing their life’s in an endless ballet
Now over to chuck for the mornings traffic update.  How’s the commute looking today? It's not good at all, we've got traffic backed up for  miles. I feel bad for these suckers

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from Prison Planet Earth, released December 25, 2020

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