The Land, The Bread, And The People lyrics
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Artist: Ballydowse Album: The Land, The Bread And The People
Lyrics
Another armchair economist playing Our life into a mess, what you know About poverty you learned in a book Think you're really qualified to Mouth off and theorize about the fears You've never even felt Time's past to button up Taste the fare on which they sup and tighten your own belt Get in line with us a while, see ya humbly watch Your child's health held in balance by the whim of the system
Between cosette and the privileged few A fat dog chokes down more than he can chew A poor land's labours are a rich land's gain Little oliver lives again
The red scare has come and gone A temporarily peaceful dawn finds us lost without a villain When the free market reigns supreme will lazarus cheer And scream or will the new bosses' wage be the same? What's it mean to buy and own when all is god's and god's alone Does a father feed half his children? Our glory is indeed our shame if our comfort breeds on others' pain This feast would be better if it wasn't so lonely
Theologies of liberation formed by mother's desperation The church condemns but offers little else Brother sun and sister moon hear a starving Child's tune thanking god for all his goodness Across the seas the bitter mutter behind ivy walls and drawn Shutters they plot to keep their own Moths and worms around us gather A slow wrath descends a ladder Mercy received in the measure it was given
Holy father we all want bread Both from heaven and your fields so green I know your grace is man's first need But I can no longer hold the pain I've seen I am my brother's keeper and that I'll always be I'll not turn my back be he stranger of blood And embrace a life of greed I am my sister's keeper and that I've always been Every day I've left her out in the streets
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