{"id":23233,"date":"2015-09-16T10:33:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T10:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=23233"},"modified":"2015-09-16T13:33:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T13:33:33","slug":"are-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/09\/are-we\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we free?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are we free<br \/>\nWho says we are<br \/>\nDemocracy<br \/>\nWho plays the star<br \/>\nDo you my friend<br \/>\nOr is it me<br \/>\nOr is it them<br \/>\nThose we can&#8217;t see<\/p>\n<p>What right have we<br \/>\nOur heavy toil<br \/>\nWe babble do we<br \/>\nAnd we boil<br \/>\nThe lies they print<br \/>\nThat some believe<br \/>\nThe irony<br \/>\nThat they achieve<\/p>\n<p>The bankers class<br \/>\nThe scoundrels do<br \/>\nSteal everything<br \/>\nFrom me and you<br \/>\nIn every way they cut<br \/>\nAnd thrust<br \/>\nAnd treat us with<br \/>\nComplete disgust<\/p>\n<p>Reality creates a cage<br \/>\nFor all of us<br \/>\nAre in that rage<br \/>\nOf really knowing where we are<br \/>\nFreedom truly a place<br \/>\nNow far<\/p>\n<p>Look at the wars<br \/>\nAnd the refugees<br \/>\nDesperate people<br \/>\nNo one free&#8217;s<br \/>\nTheir hearts and souls<br \/>\nAnd they must fly<br \/>\nTake the boats<br \/>\nThough some must die<\/p>\n<p>The little lad<br \/>\nFace down in sand,<br \/>\nBroken by waves<br \/>\nBut he reached the land<br \/>\nWhere no one wanted him<br \/>\nThe camera lens<br \/>\nClicked<br \/>\nThe message that it sends<\/p>\n<p>One of terror<br \/>\nOne of pain<br \/>\nA three year old<br \/>\nDied in vain<br \/>\nTossed just like a plastic doll<br \/>\nIn the breakers<br \/>\nHe did roll<\/p>\n<p>Crowds of people<br \/>\nRot in places<br \/>\nHolding camps<br \/>\nWhere angry faces<br \/>\nLook out at the bright new world<br \/>\nWhere all of them are being<br \/>\nHurled<\/p>\n<p>The economies are reaching lows<br \/>\nPeople they will come to blows<br \/>\nThe banks have stolen every thing<br \/>\nNow its human suffering<\/p>\n<p>So many believed all<br \/>\nThat they read<br \/>\nIt was crap and it has led<br \/>\nMany to pack up and run away<br \/>\nFrom the ruins<br \/>\nThat became their day<\/p>\n<p>The upright suffer<br \/>\nThe guilty go<br \/>\nLook at Palmer and you will know<br \/>\nWe are all canned Lions<br \/>\nIn our concrete zoo<br \/>\nAnd the system is fucking<br \/>\nWith us too<\/p>\n<p>Look at the queues<br \/>\nFor the x box crap<br \/>\nThe first of its kind<br \/>\nWho will be the sap<br \/>\nWho gets the best price<br \/>\nNever me<br \/>\nFor I am not caught up<br \/>\nIn their lunacy<\/p>\n<p>The laws are out there<br \/>\nThe edicts come<br \/>\nYou shall not, you cannot<br \/>\nOh yea there is some<br \/>\nYou might not have seen them<br \/>\nYou are fast asleep<br \/>\nToo busy counting<br \/>\nAll  of those sheep<\/p>\n<p>The corporate tsunami<br \/>\nIs underway<br \/>\nA lot of victims<br \/>\nAre here to stay<br \/>\nFEMA camps being prepared<br \/>\nWhere very few<br \/>\nWill be spared<\/p>\n<p>In applying the principles<br \/>\nWe shall find<br \/>\nTerror that will<br \/>\nBlow our mind<br \/>\nHow did we sleep<br \/>\nThrough all of this<br \/>\nClearly this lot took the piss<\/p>\n<p>They controlled it all<br \/>\nAll we learned<br \/>\nThe TV the papers<br \/>\nWere we concerned<br \/>\nNo we just went on our way<br \/>\nTill now<br \/>\nAnd we know we all will pay<br \/>\nAnd how!<\/p>\n<p>The refugees they thought the same<br \/>\nReally now who do they blame<br \/>\nGreat armies march<br \/>\nTheir pets in tow<br \/>\nAnd everything else<br \/>\nOf course did go<\/p>\n<p>They lost it all<br \/>\nTheir lifetimes toil<br \/>\nGone overnight<br \/>\nAll down to oil<br \/>\nAll down to greed<br \/>\nAll down to those<br \/>\nWho want it all<br \/>\nAnd of course it shows<\/p>\n<p>Broken buildings<br \/>\nBroken lives<br \/>\nBroken hearts<br \/>\nWho survives<br \/>\nAll of this clamour<br \/>\nAll of this pain<br \/>\nAnd now we know<br \/>\nIt was all in vain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we free Who says we are Democracy Who plays the star Do you my friend Or is it me Or is it them Those we can&#8217;t see What right have we Our heavy toil We babble do we And &hellip; 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