Wasteland Of The Free-Iris Dement

[ti:Wasteland Of The Free (Album V] [ar:爱芮丝·戴蒙] [al:The Way I Should] [by:] [offset:0] [00:26.27]We got preachers dealing in politics and diamond mines [00:30.33] [00:33.83]And their speech is growing increasingly unkind [00:36.96] [00:40.78]They say they are Christ's disciples [00:43.14] [00:44.21]But they don't look like Jesus to me [00:47.08] [00:47.90]And it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free [00:55.52] [00:56.09]We got politicians running races on corporate cash [01:00.53] [01:04.21]Now don't tell me they don't turn around and kiss them peoples' ass [01:09.45] [01:12.21]You may call me old-fashioned [01:14.40]But that don't fit my picture of a true democracy [01:20.09] [01:21.27]And it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free [01:27.59] [01:28.33]We got CEO's making two hundred times the workers' pay [01:32.58] [01:36.02]But they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage [01:40.34] [01:43.46]And If you don't like it mister they'll ship your job [01:47.89] [01:48.90]To some third-world country 'cross the sea [01:52.33]And it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free [01:56.70] [01:59.09]Living in the wasteland of the free [02:02.33] [02:08.78]Where the poor have now become the enemy [02:12.84] [02:13.78]Let's blame our troubles on the weak ones [02:17.78] [02:18.66]Sounds like some kind of Hitler remedy [02:21.72] [02:22.47]Living in the wasteland of the free [02:24.54] [02:30.47]We got little kids with guns fighting inner city wars [02:34.40] [02:38.16]So what do we do we put these little kids behind prison doors [02:43.29] [02:45.22]And we call ourselves the advanced civilization [02:48.28] [02:54.68]That sounds like crap to me [03:00.93]And it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free [03:04.12]We got high-school kids running 'round in Calvin Klein and Guess [03:06.99]Who cannot pass a sixth-grade reading test [03:09.05]But if you ask them they can tell you [03:14.12]The name of every crotch on mTV [03:19.61]And it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free [03:27.68] [03:32.74]We kill for oil then we throw a party when we win [03:37.68] [03:39.74]Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin [03:44.43] [03:47.25]But he's standing up for what he believes in [03:51.18]And that seems pretty damned American to me [03:54.31]And it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free [03:57.81]Living in the wasteland of the free [03:59.86]Where the poor have now become the enemy [04:04.87]Let's blame our troubles on the weak ones [04:17.12] [04:24.93]Sounds like some kind of Hitler remedy [04:26.99]Living in the wasteland of the free [04:29.81] [04:33.75]While we sit gloating in our greatness [04:36.62] [04:37.18]Justice is sinking to the bottom of the sea [04:40.69] [04:43.56]Living in the wasteland of the free [04:46.88] [04:52.19]Living in the wasteland of the free [04:54.99] [05:00.06]Living in the wasteland of the free