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Earth Inc.

from Free Radicals by Primeval Soup

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Earth Inc.

There was a time in history
When products were made locally
And sold through independent stores
WTO yet to be named
Globalisation yet to be blamed
Consumer culture still to be born

Fast forward to the present day and look at where we are
They are in our schools and hospitals our restaurants and bars
Through TV and the internet with media synergy
They have branded us and brainwashed us subliminally

You become a target market on the day that you are born
And you will die a lifelong user of the stuff you can’t afford

Unemployment is on the rise as yet another worker
Falls victim to the layoffs in a billion dollar merger
Where the workforce is downsized and production is outsourced
To a country in the third world with fewer labour laws

Now with production overseas
Trade union leaders obsolete
No workers’ rights on the sweatshop floor
Pay the poor on a starvation wage
Employ your workers underage
Community resistance ignored

But all of a sudden the truth begins to leak
To consumers in the western world and inner city streets
That children in Haiti earn such pitiful amounts
Working overtime for Disney and never heard of Mickey Mouse

Reclaim the streets reclaim your lives
Subvert the city, get organised
With spray paint and a stencil plate
Expose the truth behind the lies

These companies are more than just products on the shelf
They occupy the human mind to generate wealth
Through sponsored education and branded open spaces
As we obey and self-decay with smiling happy faces

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from Free Radicals, released July 6, 2013

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Formerly Brighton's longest running and laziest anarchoprogdubskapunkfuckyou band. Now residing all over the shop in the good, clean and honest south of England. Keeping it vaguely real since 2009.

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