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David Rovics
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Free traders and traitors, bankers and thieves Are at it once again
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WTO just didn't cut it So now there's no telling when
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They'll pass this latest treaty From behind closed doors
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And win another battle In the transnational class wars
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They want Fast Track Authority So they can get the job done right
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By which they mean no discussion Don't even pretend to put up a fight
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As they take from us our government's Ability to regulate
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What happens within the borders Of what they used to call the state
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In what they used to call democracy The idea that people have a say
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In whether we should be building windmills Or fracking our lives away
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Whether banking regulations Are a good idea or not
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Whether the food on your kitchen table Comes from a Monsanto plot
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Whether the poor should die Or have affordable medication
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Whether human life is less important Than your corporation
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Whether this world is a commons Or just a free trade bill
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That we need about as much As another oil spill
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So let's do like we do in the WC And flush the TPP
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They say it'll help the economy And they've said all that before
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Like when they implemented NAFTA In 1994
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The US lost a million jobs Of this there is no doubt
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And in Mexico, small farmers Were almost completely wiped out
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And when the refugees started streaming in They were treated just like tools
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In the great game of the oligarchs The old divide and rule
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Just like JP Morgan said "Why worry," he laughed
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"When I can pay half the working class To kill the other half"
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SOPA, PIPA, ACTA They couldn't get them passed
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So now they've snuck them all into TPP Try running that one up the mast
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In the back rooms no one knows Which corporation speaks
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Except when secret documents Get sent to Wikileaks
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And it's only from the whistleblowers We even know it's there
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One for Asia, one for Europe Free trade everywhere
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Free trade, free pollution Freedom for the billionaires
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Enslavement for the rest of us But hey, they got theirs
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