David Rovics

David Rovics - TPP 101 lyrics

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Free traders and traitors, bankers and thieves

Are at it once again.

WTO just didn't cut it,

So now there's no telling when.

They'll pass this latest treaty,

From behind closed doors

And win another battle

In the transnational class wars.

They want fast track authority,

So they can get the job done right

By which they mean no discussion,

Don't even pretend to put up a fight

As they take from us our government's ability to regulate

What happens within the borders

Of what they used to call the state?

In what they used to call democracy

The idea that people have a say

In whether we should be building windmills

Or franking our lives away

Whether banking regulations

Are a good idea or not.

Whether the food on your kitchen table

Comes from a Monsanto plot

Whether the poor should die.

Or have affordable medication

Whether human life is less important than your corporation.

Whether this world is a commons or just a free trade bill

That we need about as much as we need another oil spill

So let's do like we do in the WC

And flush the TPP!

They say it'll help the economy

And they've said all that before

Like when they implemented NAFTA in 1994

The US lost a million jobs,

Of this there is no doubt

And in Mexico, small farmers were almost completely wiped out

And when the refugees started streaming in

They were treated just like tools

In the great game of the oligarchs

The old divide and rule

Just like JP Morgan said,

“Why worry?” he laughed

“When I can pay half the working class to kill the other half?”

So let's do like we do in the WC

And flush the TPP!

SOPA, PIPA, ACTA

They couldn't get them passed

So now they've snuck them all into TPP

Try running that one up the masck

In the back rooms no one knows which corporation speaks

Except when secret documents get sent to Wikileaks.

And it's only from the whistleblowers we even know it's there

One for Asia, one for Europe

Free trade everywhere!

Free trade, free pollution,

Freedom for the billionaires

Enslavement for the rest of us

But hey, they got theirs.

So let's do like we do in the WC

And flush the TPP!

We do like we do in the WC

And flush the TPP!

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