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Who
brought the bomb wrapped in business cards and stained with
steak? Who hires a maid to wash his money? Who keeps politicians on
the take? Who puts outspoken third-worlders in jail just to
shut them down? Oh the lies vary from place to place but the truth
is still the same, even in this town
Their tongues are silver
forks There's a lack of wisdom, you can hear it on their
breath *Windego
Third Worlders see it first: the dynamite, the
dozers, the cancer and the acid rain The corporate caterpillars come
into our backyards and turn the world to pocket change Reservations
are the nuclear frontline; uranium poisoning kills We're starving in
a handful of gluttons We're drowning in their gravy spills
Money
junkies all over the world trample us on their way to the bank They
run in every race Windego
It's delicate confronting these
priests of the golden bull They preach from the pulpit of the bottom
line Their minds rustle with million dollar bills
You say Silver
burns a hole in your pocket and Gold burns a hole in your soul Well,
Uranium burns a hole in forever It just gets out of
control
There was a crooked man who walked a crooked mile He
raised a crooked sixpence to hide a crooked style He won a crooked race
and smiled a crooked smile Windego
Their tongues are silver
forks There's a lack of wisdom, you can hear it on
their breath Windego.
*Note: The Windego monster to
Cree people is like the Vampire is in Europe; it's a metaphor for mindless
greed that cannibalizes indiscriminately for the satisfaction of only
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