I don’t want to go through life
Anesthetized to the pain
Thrust upon us everyday
Too tranquilized to fucking see
The masters with their money
And all their power games
Slarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh
I want no part of it.
No…they will never give us freedom!
This… system is exploitation!*
They… live a life of luxury!
While… we work our fucking lives away!**
Day after day no fucking change
I want to escape I’m tired of being “waged”***
Freedom will come when all else is lost
And "work" up the courage to "fire" the boss****
NOTES:
"Turned into a toilet by Capitalism".
* - This... system is enslavement!
** - While... we slave our fucking lives away!
*** - I want to escape I'm tired of being raped
**** - We throw off these shackles and murder the boss
Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration as rhetorical device in communication.
Likening wage exploitation to slavery and rape to evoke strong feelings of opposition to capitalism is hyperbole.
And it diminishes the seriousness of these completely separate experiences.
It also uses these experiences of domination and oppression in support of anti-capitalist struggle while failing to address other social hierarchies that relate to these experiences such as white supremacy***** and male supremacy / patriarchy******. Which could produce the impression that the struggle against capitalism is central.
So in the interest of reflexivity the lyrics are changed.
*****white supremacy, a legacy of slavery and colonialism in some places including North America - a "construct" (with no biological basis) constructed for social control...
******male supremacy / patriarchy - with rape and sexual coercion as an integral means of social control and the reproduction of patriarchy...
The descriptions above are mere starting points for learning about the social hierarchies white supremacy and patriarchy and I recommend seeking diverse perspectives on these subjects.