Better Times
Author: Miguel Heatwole
There are better times comin' if you don't pay any tax
On the profits that your companies make off their workers' backs.
Your friends are influential and they can get things done
So don't forget that big donation to the campaign fund.
Better times, better times
Better times are on their way, that's what politicians say
If you've got one in your pocket, better times are here to stay
There are better times comin' if you don't want to think
Say that poverty is caused by people living on the brink
If you tune in to talkback you'll get all the help you need
To blame the poor on welfare not the ruling class' greed
Better times, better times
Better times are on their way just ring up and have your say
If facts are not much use to you you're thinking the right way
There are better times comin' 'cause your pay is gonna drop
And this will bring employment though you can't afford to shop.
When demand for goods and services has fallen through the floor
Employers won't be laying off their workers anymore.
Better times, better times
Better times are on their way if you take a cut in pay
And never join a union just do what your bosses say
There are better times comin' 'cause the marker isn't slow
So if 'share' to you means only what's in your portfolio
Invest and speculate, strip assets, make prices soar
Make a killing, oil-drilling, or when there is a war.
Better times, better times
Better times are on their way when the stockmarket you play
The only way to win is when you make the people pay
I want to live in hard time the way it was before
In the bad old days when unions flexed their muscles for the poor
When the public good was not for sale, and education free
When we lived in our society not their economy
Hard time, Hard times
Come on, let the hard times roll, let's see justice take its toll
There'll be hard times for the wealthy when we take back what they stole
"Let us pause in life's pleasures and count it many tears"
The weeping of the well-to-do is music to my soul"
Copyright 2004 Miguel Heatwole
Updated: 18 July, 2007
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