Union Songs
CONDEMn AGE
A song by Maddy Carty©2011 Maddy Carty
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Mistakes so unintentional And not inconsequential We've chosen the wrong way you see Now everybody sits and moans as the ordinary lose their homes And no one understands how this could be
It seems they're firing from all sides When even education has its price Why take from the rich When you could steal from the poor They'll never know what it was like to have more
So everybody's been condemned Except those able to spend The poor can stay poor, their philosophy Some must lose for all to gain But we don't see no rich man pain In counting up his dirty money
It's like you're living in a cage Working ninety hours at minimum wage Just to have it all taxed And you get nothing back Solely normal in this CONDEMn AGE
So prices rise while people fall But you don't care nothing at all As long as you've the right photography So you'll look nice and handsome while The youngsters paid a ransom for The fact that you've raised the tuition fees
All these men that love their cash more than their wives Send them abroad so you can live the high life But what can we say Somebody voted this way It's always easy to be wise in hindsight
So you can take our libraries Our youth service is not for free Nothing's safe and nothing's sacred see We'll take the cuts we'll take them all And wait for this regime to fall But we can't do it quietly
We'll march and shout and we'll protest Maybe to no avail, maybe to no avail But we gotta do something Can't sit around doing nothing And complain about this CONDEMn AGE Aint it insane about this CONDEMn AGE Such a shame this CONDEMned AGE
Notes
Many thanks to Maddy Carty for permission to add this song to the Union Songs collection
Visit Maddy's website at http://www.myspace.com/maddycartymusic/
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union songs..........a selection by mark gregory