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Look Up ft. Moemaw Naedon

from Us vs. Them by Swampwalk

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TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS IS NOT A THING
STOP TRYING TO MAKE TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS A THING

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why don't they look up
see the things that they're doin
arent makin any money
they're losin it

why don't they look up
see their pride
is wastin
precious lives

why don't they look up,
see the water
that was meant to trickle down
never came

i swear that we'd work faster
if we weren't so thirsty

and when we catch the drops
they half way evaporated back to the top
from the fall to the base of the pyramid blocks
that wont last when the old foundation rots
they got a nice frame for the great big shot
but its lookin like our place in the picture they forgot
cut costs yo its part of the plot
but the human cash crop can't grow in a dark spot
so they cutem in a discreet spot
with a wolf in a suit where the sheep wont flock
and when we punch the clock
they put the profit in they pocket and we drop it in our lunch box
capitalist with a half a gist
can't see past the path of their lavishes
a community in misery is no mystery
the root of it's history a man and his greed

why don't they look up
see the things that they're doin
arent makin any money
they're losin it

why don't they look up
see their pride
is wastin
precious lives

why don't they look up,
see the water
that was meant to trickle down
never came

i swear that we'd work faster
if we weren't so thirsty

and while we got so little control
over something occupyin so much of our souls
smashed from their feet
open calloused hands
with food for the beast plowin over the land
taught workin for the money driven machine
its a privilege given to the ones in the lead
one nation underneath,
the hands of god with the thumbs of a thief
run thru the amber fields of wheat
to the trickle down creek from the amethyst peaks
the plan is to keep
the source out of reach
the poor man's meat main course at the feast
can't afford a seat forged for the elite
scraps for the dog on a short cut leash
under the table look up and see the bottom
unsustainable, crumbled and rotten

why don't they look up
see the things that they're doin
arent makin any money
they're losin it

why don't they look up
see their pride
is wastin
precious lives

why don't they look up,
see the water
that was meant to trickle down
never came

i swear that we'd work faster
if we weren't so thirsty

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from Us vs. Them, released November 4, 2016
Verses written and performed by Moemaw Naedon.

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