Is This the Life We Really Want?
[Intro: Donald Trump]So as an example you’re CNN. I mean it’s story, after story, after story is bad. I won. I won. And the other thing, chaos. There’s zero chaos. We are running. This is a fine-tuned mach-
The goose has gotten fatOn caviar and fancy barsAnd subprime homesAnd broken homesIs this the life, the holy grail?It’s not enough that we succeedWe still need others to fail
Fear, fear drives the mills of modern manFear keeps us all in lineFear of all those foreignersFear of all their crimesIs this the life we really want? (Want, want, want, want)It surely must be soFor this is a democracy and what we all say goes
And every time a student is run over by a tankAnd every time a pirate’s dog is forced to walk the plankEvery time a Russian bride is advertised for saleAnd every time a journalist is left to rot in jailEvery time a young girl’s life is casually spentAnd every time a nincompoop becomes the presidentEvery time somebody dies reaching for their keysAnd every time the Greenland falls in the fucking sea is becauseAll of us, the blacks and whitesChicanos, Asians, every type of ethnic groupEven folks from Guadeloupe, the old, the youngToothless hags, super models, actors, fags, bleeding heartsFootball stars, men in bars, washerwomen, tailors, tartsGrandmas, grandpas, uncles, auntsFriends, relations, homeless trampsClerics, truckers, cleaning ladiesAnts – maybe not antsWhy not ants?Well because its trueThe ants don’t have enough IQ to differentiate betweenThe pain that other people feelAnd well, for instance, cutting leavesOr crawling across windowsills in search of open treacle tinsSo, like the ants, are we just dumb?Is that why we don’t feel or see?Or are we all just numbed out on reality TV?
So, every time the curtain fallsEvery time the curtain falls on some forgotten lifeIt is because we all stood by, silent and indifferent