Bruce Cockburn from 1985:

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In Reply to: The George Santayana "more things change, more they remain the same" Award for most prophetic rock lyrics goes to ...? posted by Audiophilander on September 6, 2006 at 08:23:33:

Padded with power here they come
International loan sharks backed by the guns
Of market hungry military profiteers
Whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared
With the blood of the poor
Who rob life of its quality
Who render rage a necessity
By turning countries into labour camps
Modern slavers in drag as champions of freedom
Sinister cynical instrument
Who makes the gun into a sacrament --
The only response to the deification
Of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations'
Idolatry of ideology
North South East West
Kill the best and buy the rest
It's just spend a buck to make a buck
You don't really give a flying fuck
About the people in misery
IMF dirty MF
Takes away everything it can get
Always making certain that there's one thing left
Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt
See the paid-off local bottom feeders
Passing themselves off as leaders
Kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellows
Open for business like a cheap bordello
And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy
See the loaded eyes of the children too
Trying to make the best of it the way kids do
One day you're going to rise from your habitual feast
To find yourself staring down the throat of the beast
They call the revolution
IMF dirty MF
Takes away everything it can get
Always making certain that there's one thing left
Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt

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Topic - The George Santayana "more things change, more they remain the same" Award for most prophetic rock lyrics goes to ...? - Audiophilander 08:23:33 09/06/06 (8)

Old and in the Way, "In the Land of the Navaho." NT - J.R. 07:40:46 09/10/06 (0)

Bruce Cockburn from 1985: - Enophile 10:25:28 09/08/06 (0)

Jackson Browne - For America - laznos 16:45:53 09/07/06 (0)

Sadly - rocky raccoon 23:23:53 09/06/06 (0)

Ric Ocasek/"People We Know" - clbeanz 12:28:34 09/06/06 (0)

Re: The George Santayana "more things change, more they remain the same" Award for most prophetic rock lyrics goes to .. - musetap 11:08:52 09/06/06 (2)

"Hard Rain" is even more prophetic. NT - J.R. 07:37:13 09/10/06 (0)

thay say tourism is the world's biggest business... - dave c 14:09:33 09/06/06 (0)

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Bruce Cockburn from 1985: - Enophile 10:25:28 09/08/06 (0)

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