Bruce Cockburn Trickle Down Lyrics

Trickle Down Lyrics

Picture on magazine boardroom pop star

Pinstripe prophet of peckerhead
greed

You say Trust me with the money -- the keys to the universe

Trickle down will give us everything we need 



Brand new century
private penitentiary

Bank vault utopia padded for the few

And its
tumors for the masses coughing for the masses

Earphones for the masses
and they all serve you 



Trickle down give em the business

Trickle down supposed to give us the goods

Cups held put to catch a
bit of the bounty

Trickle down everywhere trickle down blood 



What used to pass for education now looks more like ignoration

Take
the peoples money and slip it to the corporation

Yellow rain golden
shower pesticide firepower

Summon feudal demons of sweatshop subjugation




Workfare foul air homeless beggars everywhere

Picturephone
aristocrats lounge around the pool

Captains of industry smiling
beneficently

Leaky hull supertanker ship of fools 



Trickle
down etc  



Takeover takedown big buck shakedown

Schoolyard
pusher of the anything-for-profit

First got to privatize then you get to
piratize

Hooked on avarice  how do we get off it? 



Trickle
down etc