A Man Grows Up

The biggest problem that we have today Is that we spend our time listening to lies There is a danger that if we could see We would see through their disguise The papers say there's trouble at the border But they don't tell us that it's only common sense Our foreign policy is called starvation It hasn't changed under twenty presidents Overseas companies kill the millions by disease Then they lie and we buy it just to watch on our TV's If you wonder why the truth is so hard to find They have purchased a controlling interest in the country's mind A man grows up, he gets a job and dies I just throw up when my TV lies Most of the minds of the nation Have been smothered under rotten magazines The hearts of a people wrapped in dollars Locked up inside limousines Is that any way to talk about your country Anyone can see we've got the best But when democracy sits side by side with poverty Then I say that Some folks are votin on the fate of the rest A man grows up, he gets a job and dies I just throw up when my TV lies