Aus-Rotten <br />Anarchist Punk Anarcho Punk Crust Punk Punk Rock Hardcore Punk <br />Album The System Works For Them 1996 <br />Label Tribal War Records <br />From Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania <br />Lyrics <br /><br />You know the system kills, <br />So you try to take a stance <br />BOYCOTT <br />You speak up for the people who will never get their own chance <br />BOYCOTT <br />But are your views sincere? <br />Do you practice that what you preach? <br />BOYCOTT <br />Or are you just fooling yourself, <br />The truth just out of your reach? <br />BOYCOTT <br />You don't support your enemy when you are at war <br />BOYCOTT <br />You're helping to enhance the rich while fucking over the poor <br />BOYCOTT <br />You've heard it all before and you know just what I'm saying <br />BOYCOTT <br />You hate these corporate killers but you fucking keep on paying <br />For the products you don't need <br />You share with them their fucking greed <br />And responsibility for those who died <br />Their exploitation and genocide <br />All the shit you fucking hate <br />Too blind to see that you helped create <br /><br />[Chorus:] <br />You're living proof that the system works: <br />That the system works for them <br />You spend your hard earned money <br />And help support their death <br /><br />Boycott big business because death is the going rate <br />BOYCOTT <br />You control who you support so why support what you hate <br />BOYCOTT <br />Multi-national companies are hiding under false names <br />BOYCOTT <br />To protect themselves from people who are unaware of their games <br />BOYCOTT <br />So fuck their games and fuck their lies instead just stop and think <br />BOYCOTT <br />Is all of their suffering worth your burgers and your soft drinks? <br />BOYCOTT <br />When you buy their products you ignore the blood their spilling <br />BOYCOTT <br />Reject this capitalist system and support the ones their killing <br />BOYCOTT <br />Fuck convenience in their store <br />If it's important it's worth fighting for <br />Don't you see you hold the key <br />Throw out your fucking apathy <br />Then start to spread the word around <br />And help to bring the companies down <br /><br />[Chorus] <br /><br />Our individual effort is where the struggle begins <br />To stand up and fight for those oppressed by politicians <br />The companies condition the public thought through media bullshit <br />All of this suffering is inflicted just to turn a fucking profit <br />They stifle criticism with a cost of living raise <br />Selling out the working class a million different ways <br />The power that you give them is how they keep control <br />Don't support them anymore, it's time to take back what they stole <br />Fuck the system, fuck it's views, it's the people they abuse <br />Abuse of power and authority is the downfall of society <br />But people never seem to listen, they're all brainwashed by the system <br /><br />[Chorus]
