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Pay to be Alive

from Treasure Hunting by Patrick The Pirate

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I am so fucking pissed
Why do we pay just to exist?
It was not like that before
But now it seems they are waging war
Not to survive but just to thrive
And so they deprived the rights from all the people making them pay to be alive
It makes me sick
I’m gonna puke it makes me sick
I am so fucking pissed
How did we let it get to this?
It was not like this is the past
But we couldn’t do anything cuz they moved to fast
And now there’s factories and industries and we slave away
Building profets in theirs slavery almost every fucking day
And you’d think they’d house and they’d clothe us and they’d give us some food
But they took all of the money and they told us you are screwed
These rich corporate fucks they’ve got it in their heads
That we will fucking work for them until we’re all dead
But I refuse
Because this capitalistic system is tearing us apart
So much inequality and too many broken hearts
It’s a racist, sexist, classist system
How did we get on this track?
But it doesn’t matter how we got here so long as we get back
Because we shouldn’t have to pay to exist
We shouldn’t have to pay to survive
We shouldn’t have to pay to be healthy
We shouldn’t have to pay to be alive

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from Treasure Hunting, released May 1, 2016

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Patrick the Pirate plays a black guitar and screams until he loses his voice…. when he isn't playing music he spends time being a landlocked pirate.

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