“Give me liberty or give me death” Screams the sign on your city hall Now that you face a real choice I wonder how you can stand so tall All of a sudden that authoritarian Who can lock down his own people at will Begins to look like a great benefactor As your democracies stumble and spill The custodians of your constitutions Wring their hands and scratch their heads And your hollowed-out institutions Don’t have enough ventilators, or even beds Your leaders are asking you to choose Between death and a fate that may be worse Well it’s too late now - you elected them In the name of ideology you brought on the curse Your CEOs sleep in their mansions of gold While you toiled ever harder, they got rich They’ll get big bailouts from their friends While you stay stranded in the same old ditch Ever wonder how we became so inhuman We won’t help our own in their hour of need Capitalism without a trace of compassion Has another name - it’s called plain greed Wake up now, friend, while there’s still time Wake up and change the world - yes you can Or it’s not this scourge that will destroy you I hate to tell you this, but it’ll be your fellow man