[00:00.000] 作曲 : David Stefan Rovics
[00:16.836]When you're working two jobs and living in a tent
[00:20.520]When a house costs a million bucks and you can't pay the rent
[00:24.751]When politicians say they'll help but it keeps getting worse
[00:28.931]Each time the landlord lobby pulls the strings of the purse
[00:33.163]When the human right to housing isn't even part of the debate
[00:36.977]You know you're living in a failed state
[00:40.164]
[00:47.922]When millions of citizens are spending half their lives
[00:52.337]Locked up in a prison for trying to survive
[00:56.490]When laws must be broken just to have a place to stay
[01:00.435]When the prisons pay the senators to look the other way
[01:04.562]If you have to be a criminal to put food upon your plate
[01:08.585]You know you're living in a failed state
[01:11.798]
[01:19.556]When you're facing climate breakdown
[01:21.307]When the trees are all on fire
[01:23.736]When half the country's underwater
[01:25.956]When a climate change denier
[01:29.065]Runs the nation
[01:30.084]And the opposition party votes for oil rigs and pipelines
[01:34.446]This is not so much a country as it is a corporation
[01:39.096]Buckling under its weight
[01:40.245]You know you're living in a failed state
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[01:51.321]When your nation is an empire facing daily blowback
[01:55.396]And the only thing your leaders can think to do is attack
[01:59.602]Bipartisan consensus that we need to spend
[02:04.304]Seven-hundred billion before the year's end
[02:08.275]On a military budget to 'make America great'
[02:12.010]You know you're living in a failed state
[02:15.145]
[02:23.295]When almost every day some psycho with a gun
[02:27.579]Has to open fire on a crowd before it's done
[02:31.837]When a music festival becomes a free-fire zone
[02:35.808]And all they can say is 'it's okay, he was acting alone'
[02:40.040]Buy some armor, pray to God, and hide behind a gate
[02:43.801]You know you're living in a failed state
[02:50.410]You know you're living in a failed state
[02:56.732]You know you're living in a failed state