Parasites from Zeitgeist by Tom Langeloh

My lawyer makes more in an hour
than I make pounding nails in eight
you give a doctor two thousand dollars
so he can tell you that it's something you ate
you give a banker all of your money
and he tells you that he's working for you
but your hours are six until midnight
and his hours are ten until two
and his manicured hands and his Hollywood tan
will tell you just who's working for who

Chorus:

Parasites, they're picking us clean
Parasites, they're making me mean
Parasites, they treat you like a machine
Parasites!

They tell me that I must get insurance
or something bad will happen to me
the kind of thing we once called extortion
now we call "smart financial planning"
I know a guy who's a commodities broker
they tell me he's a genuis, my friend
but he buys the farmer's grain for a dollar
and turns around and sells it for ten
do I have to explain, you don't need a brain
to be screwing the pooch at both ends

Chorus

Why is it those that toil get such a small return
while worm infested office suites got more than they can burn
why is it the less they work the more money that they make
guess it's cause they less you give
the more you tend to take

To all the carpenters and farmers and teachers
all the janitors, truck drivers and clerks
all the underpaid and under respected
all the ones who really do all the work
you ought to give yourself a nice, ong vacation
and let the parasites go it alone
and when the food disappears from their table
and the roof is falling in on their home
maybe they'll find out what's real, it ain't making a deal
or lying on a cellular phone

chorus

• Acoustic
• Witty
• insightful folk rock
• Putney