Never Gonna Be The Same

How much do you pay for product?
Do you know what you pay for hype?
How long will that purchase matter
When that push falls from your sight?
If they sugar coat the poison
It'll kill you quite the same.
Tune us in as consumers
And anesthetize our brains
We're too dumb to figure out that we all play the game
And we're to blame
Do we know what's fact or fiction?
Do you really trust the news?
How much truth gets filtered out
Before it gets to you?
Diverting your attention
From the problems here at home
Sweep the homeless under the rug
And our ghettos we disown
Out of sight out of mind, it's a method we condone
Reap what we've sown
People fight for equality
For their gender and their race
They seek to blame each other
For the problems that they face
But when 20% of the country
Owns 80% of its wealth
It limits your opportunities
To play the hand you're dealt
Because money is what divides us
More than color or creed.
The middle class, the poor
And rich minority
And while they tear down homeless shelters
To erect big strip mall chains
The gap between the rich and poor
Gets wider every day
It doesn't matter what they say to you
We're never gonna be the same