Capitalism Must Die lyric sheet ------------------------------------------------- 1 - Sing This Bird To Life System says leave no shiny rock unturned System says leave no drop of oil unburned Capitalism is the way To turn the planet grey But to hope it'll be okay Is to think there's no enemy The gods are not around The gods are not around To sing this bird to life So we will have to Sing this bird to life We will have to Commodify until there is nothing left Steal the sky and sell it by the breath The toil vampires realize When workers organize This scheme of theft and lies Is going to be swept away The goddesses won't be enough The goddesses won't be enough To sing this bird to life So we will have to Sing this bird to life We will have to ------------------------------------------------- 2 - EASY MONEY With a gun The north and south and east and west were won The ruthless ones Sure as hell know how to get shit done And how to make that easy money And how to make that easy money When capitalists throw their weight around It's development, it's progress When we resist being kept down We risk a downward change of address The euphemism of choice Does not change what's real With a gun The land and sea and air and life were won The ruthless ones Sure as hell know how to get shit done And how to make that easy money And how to make that easy money When capitalists destroy the land It's productive and it's crucial When the workers disrupt the plan We impede business as usual Capitalist crazy talk Does not change what's real With a gun Are taken workers' sweat and blood and time The ruthless ones Sure as hell know how to do their crimes And how to make that easy money And how to make that easy money When capitalists declare their reign They come flashing bits of paper Scattered, not yet able to lose our chains We're compelled to sell our labour The explanations they give Do not change what's real With a gun The north and south and east and west were won The ruthless ones Sure as hell know how to get shit done And how to make that easy money And how to make that easy money When capitalists give back a tiny bit It's generous, it's selfless When we say the capitalists are full of it They say we're lazy, say we're jealous The satisfaction they feel Does not change what's real With a gun The land and sea and air and life were won The ruthless ones Sure as hell know how to get shit done And how to make that easy money And how to make that easy money When capitalists poison the water It's to remain a prosperous nation If we dare oppose the slaughter We're clashing with "civilization" A lie told thousands of times Does not change what's real With a gun The north and south and east and west were won The ruthless ones Sure as hell know how to get shit done And how to make that easy money And how to make that easy money And how to make that easy money And how to make that easy money That easy money With a gun The land and sea and air and life were won ------------------------------------------------- 3 - Squabble Politicians pillow fight While the state with all its might Holds the land in trust But not for us Holds it as plans are laid For profit to be made That turns the land to dust Turns the land to dust And while the workers toil Bandits with their boats Squabble over the spoils Squabble over the spoils Squabble over Pacifists turn a cheek But we're too far up the creek It's all a deadly con We have been led on This system will kill us all If we wait for it to fall It cannot be reformed Cannot be reformed And while the planet burns Terrorists with tanks Maximize their returns Maximize their returns And squabble over And in their wretched mess Dow Jones and his drones Look for ways to invest Look for ways to invest And squabble over ------------------------------------------------- 4 - Capitalism Must Die Capitalism is destruction Capitalism is misery Capitalism is an affliction Capitalism is the enemy Capitalism must die Capitalism is empire Capitalism is the man Capitalism is enclosure Capitalism is stolen land Capitalism must die Capitalism is global warming Capitalism is extinction Capitalism is greenwashing Capitalism is invasion Capitalism is privatization Capitalism is supply side Capitalism is genocide Capitalism is omnicide Capitalism must die Capitalism is police state Capitalism is pornography Capitalism is prostitution Capitalism is atomization Capitalism is violation Capitalism is thug justice Capitalism is surveillance Capitalism is commodification Capitalism is wage theft Capitalism is expropriation Capitalism is dispossession Capitalism is exploitation Capitalism is deprivation Capitalism is hypocrisy Capitalism is armed robbery Capitalism is poverty Capitalism must die Capitalism is not reformable Capitalism is not sustainable Capitalism is not inevitable Capitalism is not unbeatable Capitalism is not ethical Capitalism is not logical Capitalism must die ------------------------------------------------- 5 - The Workers And The Thief Dawn to dusk we're on our feet For not enough now to make ends meet It's a rigged game we play And it always goes your way This arrangement suits you fine Steal our work yeah and steal our time It's as rotten and absurd As a politician's word We're the workers And you're a thief In the real world somewhere beyond belief Not one thing gets done Your industries don't run Not without our labour We're the workers And you're a thief The more we give, the more you take Accelerate now until we break The carrot and the stick The wars and the rhetoric You want the whole world enclosed And then you say that's the way it goes Happy to take Everything we make We're the workers And you're a thief In the real world somewhere beyond belief What is it you do To get shit named after you You profit-mad exploiter We're the workers And you're a thief We are bound but we will be free This is only temporary We are bound but we will be free This is only temporary ------------------------------------------------- 6 - SHIP IN A BOTTLE Ship in a bottle And a crew confused Sky on wires Keeps us amused No new horizon No wind of change No revolution Course set in vain Break the glass that holds us back Motion is what we lack 'Cause a ship in a bottle Will never get us anywhere A ship in a bottle Will never get us anywhere Ship in a bottle No haven here Spellbound and waiting Disarmed by fear Nothing is perfect And will never be Learn as we fall and rise Out on the sea Deck chair badass, are you brave? Learn to struggle through the waves 'Cause a ship in a bottle Will never get us anywhere Close to where we need to go A ship in a bottle Will never get us anywhere Close to where we need to go ------------------------------------------------- 7 - When The Oil Hits The Fan Army Corps Of Engineers Kill the bees and flash chill the beer B-47 chiseled from the steel blue sky Your 50s heaven will not fit in the plans When the oil hits the fan Sci-fi boys won't save the day Or help the poor their government made Middle class daydream faded as a hippie shirt Cheering for the home team Won't steady trembling hands When the oil hits the fan When the oil hits the fan When the oil hits the fan When the oil hits the fan If this is the end of days We still don't want the bandits to have it their way If this is the end of days We still don't want the liars to take us for prey If this is the end of days We still don't want the cowards to have it their way If this is the end of days We still don't want exploiters to take us for prey If this is the end of days We still don't want polluters to have it their way If this is the end of days We still don't want oppressors to take us for prey If this is the end of days We still don't want the fuckers to have it their way