Broken Promise

Capital goes where there's a profit And profit has no moral judgement The global market's profit hungry It lost all humanity Human lives, human bodies Bought and sold commodities Child prostitutes, sweat shops and factories Exploitation knows no boundries We sacrified the poor, the powerless To sustain a consumption that's mindless We led generations into slavery We've slaughthered what was left of their dignity Capital goes where there's a profit And profit has no moral judgement The global market's profit hungry It lost all humanity Human lives, human bodies Bought and sold commodities Child prostitutes, sweat shops and factories Exploitation knows no boundries Our governements knew to turn a blind eye And let the human traffic just go by Who cares about the children of the losers As long as ou world shines and glitters You know that half of the world's population Lives on less than two bucks a day Yet all you care about is your comfort That's the American way You wanted to believe We were noble and strong Well everything is gone dead wrong This system promised equality It promised justice and decency Broken promise There's no retreat from this reality And not so many ways to regain humanity Change never comes that easy But to rise and fight is a necessity