Give It All Up
Bob A. Feldman
A folk song--written in 1971 (with some later 21st-century-added lyrics)--about why folks in the USA should drop out of U.S. society, give up trying to rise individually within a hip, techie capitalist economic system, work "for the good of all" instead , and make a Revolution in the USA.
(chorus)
Give it all up
For the good of all
Give it all up
To hasten the fall.
(verses)
Maybe you got a job
A 9 to 5 coffin
Fuck their mindless jobs
We're after our freedom. (chorus)
If you're born in the working-class
The rich think you're just an ass
We're ripped off by businessmen
And women with greedy heads. (chorus)
Maybe you got a grant
For being a flunkie artist
Maybe you're now a prof
For being an opportunist. (chorus)
Maybe you're at MIT
Employed by the military
Maybe you're at Harvard
Learning to be a snob. (chorus)
I'd rather be free
Than a money-making machine
I'd rather be a bum
Than married to a plastic one. (chorus)
I'm sick of imperialism
As well as of zionism
The Corporate Democrats
Are just like the GOP rats. (chorus)
I'm bored with their permanent war
I feel like I've seen it before
I'm sick of colonialism
And a System that's like a prison. (chorus)