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The writing's on the wall, but no one wants to see it;

Shouts are coming from the rooftops, but no one wants to hear them.

There's already a No.1, but everyone wants to be it;

The No.1's are millionaires, so everyone wants to be near them.

Everyone wants to be a millionaire, to have wealth and power;

Everyone wants the power to live above and outside the law,

But no one can have that on $5.15 an hour,

Save those who are in the courtroom or playing football.



People say that we live in a democratic society,

One where the people choose the leaders and laws that govern them;

Critcs say we live in a bureaucratic society,

One where the chosen leaders steal from those who have chosen them;

Politicians say they come from a secret society,

One where its members are above the laws, and make their own;

But financiers say we all live in a capitalist society,

One where money is all it takes to make someone else's life your own.



Power-hungry people are consumed by political aspirations,

But not many of them are truly worthy to lead;

Money-hungry people are consumed by financial liberations,

But most of them are not immune to greed.

Everyone wants something, that much is always true;

It's those that want everything that need to be worried about.

But what it all comes down to really is is how it affects YOU,

And that's all that really matters without a shadow of a doubt...





Patrick Hopkins