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One Slice Of The Occupie, Please

from Bystanders by Bridges Left Burning

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Dollar, dollar on the wall, make me rich and fuck ‘em all!
This current crisis which we’re all facing is not the result
of the selfishness of a few investment bankers.
It is the inevitable consequence of an economic system
that rewards cut -throat competition at every level of society.
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A system driven by competition for ever -increasing profit
cannot be sustained perpetually,
as one day everything that can be bought and sold
will be capital held in the hands of a few.

Now that almost everything has been fed into the fire,
the system is collapsing
and it’s leaving even its former beneficiaries out in the cold.

Without redistributing wealth the economic cycle stops
and the profits dry up,
which leads to higher unemployment rates.
Therefore, no more real products can be sold
and capitalists can continue making profits
only by speculating on future returns.

But like any house of cards, debt can’t be built up forever.
Eventually someone calls it in.
The house of cards collapsed under its own weight in 2008,
when it occurred even to the last one
that the expected future returns could never materialize.

So why are we still fed with scraps from the table of an oligarchic few?
Why are we still taking part in the annual stock market crash derby?

We are the voice that’s speaking out against your gambling with lives, we will speak out against your greed crimes
behind drawn velvet curtains
and we will take back what has been ours all along!
We take out loans and struggle to pay rent
while you bathe in your money bins
and figure out “new ways to rob hard -working people blind”*.
We’ve had enough time’s come for us to rise!
We are the voice of all
who’ve put their trust in your system that’s failed.
Your system has failed!

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from Bystanders, released July 26, 2013
Written and produced by Bridges Left Burning
Recorded and mixed by Benedikt Hain @ Outback Recordings in Zwiesel Mastered by Ludwig Maier @ GKG Mastering in Freising
Artwork by Martin Hofmann, Augsburg

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