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Better Ourselves

from Waves by Ryan Lee Williams

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They tell us they'll fix it
They tell us that they will make it right
Our saviors sit above us, their plans kept out of site

We've seen it before
This isn't new to anyone
This is a system, their plans unravel until they all become undone

They call it Free Trade
They say it'll bring jobs to the poor
Across the border they toil in sweatshops, across the street they've jobs no more

While wealth knows no borders
They pass it back and forth amongst themselves
But if a poor man crosses over one, they'll take him off to jail

They flooded the markets, the crops no longer sell
Multinationals pushed their own crops and the prices fell
Now given the choice to work in sweatshops or flee
They set the plans to allow this, this is their policy

And they meet in secret to set this up, their agendas are kept hidden
We see the effects all over the world, but the people's voices are overridden...or so it seems

All over the world
people have stood up to the beast
that feeds the wealthy off the rest of us and now they come to our own streets

But there are visions
of a new world still to come
built in the ashes of the hell they've made from the hearts of everyone

We've all been affected
Our families, our neighbors, and our world
We've trusted saviors far too long, we can do it better ourselves

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from Waves, track released November 1, 2010

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