Money and Millenials

Its a little green paper

Signed onto a waiver

“One free entry” it cries

“Collect them all or you shall die”

And on it is stamped lies

About the worth of paper and gold

Hearkening back to the silver of old

When will we take this moldy system

Into a future where bread is less expensive

And food is there for all
I don’t think we’re making the right call here

Living in a constant state of fear

That we might not make the next bill

Feeding ourselves this capitalist swill

That you’ve got to be worth something good

To get your daily food

And while we’re at it why stop now

Feeding grain to cows

And feeding cows to human beings

And wondering why we’re so damn big

Well from what I’m seeing

This isn’t my game of monopoly

This isn’t my idea of a democracy

The thing happening in America today

Are we supposed to believe
Progress paved this way?

You asked me once why we’re so lazy

I’m here to tell you that idea is crazy

We’re so far from not working hard enough

Don’t you understand how tough

It is to make a dollar?

Wage gaps holla!

When millenials make the same as you used to

Back in good ol nineteen seventy two

But the price of goods and services

Has tripled in the past fifty years.

Before you trip up

Let me see

How you’re doing on equality?

Oh

Guess that’s how far you managed to go

So

Don’t tell me we’re the problem

When you’re the one with the gigantic roster

With numbers on it that make time go faster

With each passing year

A tiny bit of fear

You’re passing on to us

I’m begging make it stop.

How dare you create a system

In which there is no wisdom?

Leave us be;

Or we’ll fix your society.