Sylvia Chidi (Germany)
It is a Rat Race!
We fight for land
We fight for a brand
We fight for our stand
We fight on demand
O! Yeah! It is a rat race
So many more rats I have to face
In hundreds we crawl the city pavements
This rat era of industrial enslavement
Creeping through the tunnels of the underground
The rats are forever mass politically duty-bound
And with any new evolution
We wave ‘hello’ to a new revolution
O! Yeah! It is a rat race
Every little space is a crowded place
Some are going to work
Some are going for a walk
Some are looking for some luck
Some are trying to make a buck
We are pests of mother earth
Mass copulating until the sun sets
Thousands rave and party in music concerts
And in mass graves we acknowledge our deaths
With shame we cannot bury economic crisis
Even with many centuries of wars and peace
O! Yeah! It is a rat race
We keep on running at a fast pace
For the sake of acquiring education
Everywhere in mass congregations
We place ourselves in institutions
We scrounge the cities for daily food
And a global circle of waste is regularly issued
To our environment! - We do more harm than we do good
We fight for fish
We fight for our dish
We fight for wishes
We fight and varnish with many images tarnished
O! Yeah! It is a rat race
A lasting curse of the human race
Copyright 2010 - Sylvia Lovina Chidi
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