Inspired by Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Economic Bill of Rights:
"We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. 'Necessitous men are not free men.' People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."
lyrics
[VERSE I]
Grinding our bones to earn our keep.
Never earning more than to survive.
The only refuge is in our sleep.
This fate: Our failure to thrive.
[CHORUS]
Necessitous men cannot be free
to grind away needlessly.
When all that we do is to survive,
will that become our dignity?
[VERSE II]
We were meant for more than drawing breath.
Empty deeds bereft of significance.
An uprising will come to pass
and free us burdened souls.
[REPEAT CHORUS]
[ENDING]
What is the final price we'll pay
when our lives are stolen from us.
Not by the sword, but by greed.
No abundance, but plaguing need.
Hollowing out our humanity.
Lingering death.
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