The 1% want to tell you what to believe in
Buy Nikes, work for pennies, and dissension is treason
We don’t care if you’re broke
We don’t care how you feed them
You just pay the check – just pay the check.
Socialism is evil; capitalism is timeless
Banks are too big to fail
Your foreclosure is righteous
And you don’t have a job because you’re lazy and trifflin’
Now you just pay the check – just pay the check.
They cut public programs, give welfare to the rich
oil companies who make sure the Gulf sleeps with its fish
The purple people eaters make of us
A red and blue dish
While we vote for the check – just click the check
You are getting very sleepy, but you can’t go to sleep
Because of Amazon, we stay up, and we work on the cheap
Then they tell us that unions, are for bums in the street
While they push through right-to-work laws in the night like a thief
And we work hard for the check – work for the check
Social security’s “entitlement” and it is not earned
Don’t look directly at the Ponzi scheme with which you got burned
Their money is sheltered
But our money they burn
And they add tax to the check – increase the check.
Nine-year-old girls getting body slammed and young men in jail
Brown families tryin' to figure out how they can make bail
But they're unable to do that cause’
The system has failed
So they cry about the check – bury the check.
The right tries to get em’ early, make the young people pay
Standardizes education, prepares them to obey
Tells historical lies to make the pain go away
Banning books and firing teachers who’ve got something to say
So kids won’t ask about the check - won’t read the check.
Global Majority are scrabbling at each other’s throats
With words of anger just to cover up the hurt that’s provoked
Cause we bought into this European noose at our throat
The violence of supremacy holds us in it's yoke
As we fight over the check – about the check.
But the truth’s somewhere out there, it exposes our bloodlust
for capitalism - a zombie that has made Earth a dry husk
We watch Netflix as the atmosphere dissolves around us
Do social media as democracy corrupts just like rust
And climate changes for the check – earth pays the check.
Oligarchs do all this on purpose; it is not a mistake
They're printing money until the sleeping dragon awakes
They'll cause a nuclear winter that no one can escape
And fly off to a planet, leaving us in their wake
Trying to leave us with the check.
But change goes out in the winter, and it sits on the roof
And it refuses to come down until we all see the truth
Humanity, the Earth, will be the power that guides us
Reparations overdue. They can’t distract or divide us
Let's make them pay the check!
