Rights
We're losing our rights very slowly.
We've watched our democracy go.
While the laws are changing for worse.
and communism starting to show.
We'll vote for the people we want
'till the party has it's say.
Then they'll change their mind to act
in a crazy unusual way.
When it comes to political salaries
only they can vote for more.
While it's only we who can't
reject their cost and horror.
We once had the right to privacy.
A warrant would have to ensue.
Now the police take the records they want
and the judge has no weighing to do.
With the cameras recording our crimes.
and the policemen watching to find.
All the problems we have to face
are the victims more bitter than kind.
While the number of poor increase
as the ones with money go broke.
It's always too late to complain
when it's after the fact they spoke.
Now our knowledge is kept up high
while the little men work as drones
and the world will end in poor
while the big men trade in thrones.
We've watched our democracy go.
While the laws are changing for worse.
and communism starting to show.
We'll vote for the people we want
'till the party has it's say.
Then they'll change their mind to act
in a crazy unusual way.
When it comes to political salaries
only they can vote for more.
While it's only we who can't
reject their cost and horror.
We once had the right to privacy.
A warrant would have to ensue.
Now the police take the records they want
and the judge has no weighing to do.
With the cameras recording our crimes.
and the policemen watching to find.
All the problems we have to face
are the victims more bitter than kind.
While the number of poor increase
as the ones with money go broke.
It's always too late to complain
when it's after the fact they spoke.
Now our knowledge is kept up high
while the little men work as drones
and the world will end in poor
while the big men trade in thrones.
There's a stanza in this poem that reads "Now our knowledge is kept up high while the little men work as drones and the world will end in poor while the big men trade in thrones". This line basically foreshadows to the fact that if we don't make changes in our economy the world is doomed to be poor while the rich 1% sit high above everyone else, untouched by people below them. It also hints at how the country is run by these one percenters and everyone else works like "drones" and still ends up poor and the money they need to survive is given to this elite group of people who quite obviously don't need it. This just represents once again how unachievable the American dream is and how once you're poor theres almost no escaping it.