When Rhetoric Dies chords by BoySetsFire

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Verse 1
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We raise the flags and statues
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to our mission
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We've spoken out in
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slogans and campaigns
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Talked and talked on
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almost every issue
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Where oppression of the
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masses is the constant theme
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Verse 2
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But what does this mean to
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a little town in Iowa
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Where the jobs have gone downstream
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down south down and out
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Where their fingers used to work
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to the bone all day
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Profits rise and fall and star
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vation is a game
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Verse 3

Where is the food that used

to cover the table

Where is the sense of pride at the

end of the day

To the face of the thriving corporation

What could a dying fam

ily possibly say

Interlude 1

Verse 4
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On the face of every
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Americ  an worker
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Is the constant fear that
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their job won't remain
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As the C.E.O. is planning
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his vacation
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To kill or be killed is the nature
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of the beast
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Verse 5
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Where is the food that used
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to cover the table
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Where is the sense of pride at
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the end of the day
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To  the face of the thriv
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ing corporation
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What could a dying fam
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ily possibly say

Interlude 2

Verse 6
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Stand in line take a number
You sell your soul
Then watch it crumble
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Into a pile of rubble that used to be
Your job
Your life
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Your family's daily bread
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Dry and stale malnourished kid
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The house is sold for a degrading bid
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Do we continue to talk
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Or do we take a hammer
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To their chains
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To their chains
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