Locked in a cell block of human live stocks You can stuff it with ballots or build it with blocs But the freedom you dream of is just an allusion To Malthus preclusions foregoing infusions Of classes and races and genders and creeds And the wanting more needs that democracy breeds When we re-elect greed so it regulates voice And then blows out our brains as it propagates choice In the form of a cycle of wage-enslaved debt Still trickling down into your glass of forget to regretΒ Β Politician magicians use sleight of hand theft To empty both pockets, the right and the left And campaign on the same cheaters running the game Who off-shore account lion shares of the blame For the blood as it leaks on the bills from the ceiling Their crimes are 9/10ths of this court of appealing Back door patrol dealing like pimps in a club Made of rolling green Edens on Earth and above Who deny us so much as a crumb of the cake That we eat so much garbage it stops tasting fake