Bruce Cockburn - Trickle Down lyrics
[Bruce Cockburn - Trickle Down lyrics]
Picture on magazine boardroom pop star
Pinstripe prophet of peckerhead greed
You say "Trust me with the money
The keys to the universe"
Trickle down will give us everything we need
Brand new century private penitentiary
Bank vault utopia padded for the few
Tumours for the masses coughing
For the masses earphones for the masses and
They all serve you
Trickle down give 'em the business
Trickle down supposed to give us the goods
Cups held out to catch a bit of the bounty
Trickle down everywhere trickle down blood
What used to pass for education
Now looks more like ignoration
Take the people's money and slip
It to the corporation
Yellow rain golden shower pesticide firepower
Summon feudal demons of sweatshop subjugation
Workfare foul air homeless beggars everywhere
Picturephone aristocrats lounge around
The pool
Captains of industry smiling beneficently
Leaking hole supertanker ship of fools
Trickle down give 'em the business
Trickle down supposed to give us the goods
Cups held out to catch a bit of the bounty
Trickle down everywhere trickle down blood
Take over takedown big bucks shakedown
Schoolyard pusher of the anything-for-profit
First got to privatize then
They get to piratize
Hooked on avarice how do we get off it?
Trickle down give 'em the business
Trickle down supposed to give us the goods
Cups held out to catch a bit of the bounty
Trickle down everywhere trickle down blood
Trickle down give 'em the business
Trickle down supposed to give us the goods
Cups held out to catch a bit of the bounty
Trickle down everywhere trickle down blood
Trickle down
Pinstripe prophet of peckerhead greed
You say "Trust me with the money
The keys to the universe"
Trickle down will give us everything we need
Brand new century private penitentiary
Bank vault utopia padded for the few
Tumours for the masses coughing
For the masses earphones for the masses and
They all serve you
Trickle down give 'em the business
Trickle down supposed to give us the goods
Cups held out to catch a bit of the bounty
Trickle down everywhere trickle down blood
What used to pass for education
Now looks more like ignoration
Take the people's money and slip
It to the corporation
Yellow rain golden shower pesticide firepower
Summon feudal demons of sweatshop subjugation
Workfare foul air homeless beggars everywhere
Picturephone aristocrats lounge around
The pool
Captains of industry smiling beneficently
Leaking hole supertanker ship of fools
Trickle down give 'em the business
Trickle down supposed to give us the goods
Cups held out to catch a bit of the bounty
Trickle down everywhere trickle down blood
Take over takedown big bucks shakedown
Schoolyard pusher of the anything-for-profit
First got to privatize then
They get to piratize
Hooked on avarice how do we get off it?
Trickle down give 'em the business
Trickle down supposed to give us the goods
Cups held out to catch a bit of the bounty
Trickle down everywhere trickle down blood
Trickle down give 'em the business
Trickle down supposed to give us the goods
Cups held out to catch a bit of the bounty
Trickle down everywhere trickle down blood
Trickle down