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Ryan Harvey
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Global Economy
One cup of coffee, $1.50 Guy who picked the coffee didn't get $3.00 He's stuck in the belly of industry That doesn't care about people
Working on the hills on stolen land Picking at the earth with his scuffed bare hands Sweating for the profits of some rich man That doesn't care about people
Buy a piece of fruit at the grocery store Shipped from Guatemala, Chile or El Salvador Grown by orphaned children of the civil war That was funded by fruit corporations
A global trade system riding on the backs Of family packed in wall-less shacks Living in the fear of death squad attacks That are funded by fruit corporations
One pack of t-shirts, $4.50 Girl who sewed the t-shirts didn't get $3.00 And she trying to survive in an industry That doesn't care about people
Bangladesh factory, 16 hour-shift No over-time, breaks or benefits And they'll fire her if she gets pregnant Cuz they don't care about people
New York banks watched the Thai Baht grow 更多更詳盡歌詞 在 ※ Mojim.com 魔鏡歌詞網 And they took huge amounts in That Baht loans Converted em' to dollars when they go back home And it put millions into poverty
They paid off their debts in U.S. cash Pocketed the profits in U.S. banks And the Southeast Asian markets crashed And it put millions into poverty
One diamond ring, a few grand Kid who mined the diamonds lost his hand As a message from the soldiers who run land That are funded by diamond corporations
Wealth derived through poverty From the lingering cuts of slavery In the form of an export economy Controlled by diamond corporations
Imperialism in it's modern form Debt-locked, free-market economic reform Blowing through the Global South like a tropical storm Tearing at the seams of culture
From the cluster bomb to the rifle butt From the gold mine to the clearcut Capitalism's got the world locked up And it's tearing at the seams of culture
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