HARDLY A DREAM, LIE PENNED BY POWERS THAT BE.
THE EVILS OF LAW AND ORDER, ENFORCED BY ARISTOCRACY.
WHO HAVE A PLACE TO LIE THEIR HEADS, THEIR HEALTH.
EYES AVERTED FROM OTHERS, “THE STENCH!”
FOR EVERY WRETCH WHO CRIES, SOMEWHERE THERE ARE EARS.
THE ANSWER OF INDIFFERENCE COMES BACK CLEAR.
HERE AMONGST FREEDOM, PAINFUL BEGGING.
HERE AMONGST OPPORTUNITY,
THERE’S SILENT DEATH!

SURVIVAL IN A STATE THAT FORCES ONE TO LIE.
IN ORDER TO FULFILL NEEDS TO HELP US GET BY.
A HUMAN RIGHT GIVEN BY THOSE WHO WITHHOLD.
FORCED TO TAKE THE MEAGER SHREDS AND DO WHAT YOU’RE TOLD.
A REAL NATIONAL SECRET, STARVATION IN THE HOME OF THE BRAVE.
BARREN CUPBOARDS FOR MILLIONS. UNSPOKEN TO AVOID THE SHAME.
A REAL NATIONAL SECRET,
THERE’S RAMPANT UNNECESSARY DEATH!
HOSPITALS PILED UP WITH BODIES, WESTERN PRACTICES WRINGING THEIR NECKS.
FEIGNING SOME ILLNESS TO GET ANOTHER KIND OF CARE,
A RUSE TO LEARN HOW TO COPE TURNS TO LIFELONG DESPAIR
OF DENIAL, DISPLACEMENT,
UPROOTED AND TURNED AWAY.
HOW DARE THE DESTITUTE EXPECT SUCH CIVIL DECENCY?
A REAL NATIONAL SECRET,
FOUR EMPTY HOMES PER PERSON WHO NEEDS.
PUT ON A BUS TO NO-WHERE, AS THEIR TENTS CUT DOWN BY POLICE.
A REAL NATIONAL SECRET,
THERE’S FILTHY WATER THAT NO ONE CAN DRINK!
TOXIC FOR ALMOST A DECADE. NEGLECTED BY THE WORLD AS SLUDGE FILLS THEIR SINK.
A FALSE SYSTEM OF HEALTH, OF STATE-SANCTIONED BENEFIT FEEDS.
LIKE A BONE TOSSED TO A DOG, GRATEFUL FOR GRADE-D MEAT.
LINE UP FOR THE WELFARE, THE CRITERIA BEING JUST SO.
THEY’RE BUSTING AT THE SEAMS TO TELL YOUR CHILDREN ‘NO’.
FAILED BY EVERY RESOURCE, JUST A NUMBER ON A BOARD.
PICKED OFF LIKE A SCAB, YOUR VALUE IS WHAT YOU CAN AFFORD.
SHELTER GIVEN TO THE WORTHY, MEDICINE GOES TO THE RESPECTABLE MAN. HUNGER KEEPS THE POOR IN WANTING, A GREEDY DISEASE OF A SPLINTERED LAND.
BUT STILL GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD
AND FORGIVE US OUR SINS AGAINST THE STATE.
ALL WE WANTED WERE BASIC NEEDS AND SOMEWHERE TO FEEL SAFE.