Money Screams (a progressive metal song about Citizens United)

Open Secrets reported in 2022: Spend big, win big: 96% of U.S. House races won by the biggest spender. See also this.

Using Udio.com for the music, I created this progressive metal song about Citizens United and economic inequality.

Note: there are some glitches in the animated lyrics.

They say money talks, but now it screams,
Drowning out the people's dreams,
Citizens United, the ruling came,
Now democracy's just a rigged game.

They shelter wealth in distant lands,
While we break our backs with calloused hands,
The game is rigged, the deck’s unfair,
And they pretend they really care.

They write the rules, they hold the pen,
Crafting laws for their own ends,
They call it freedom, they call it fair,
But it’s the power of the billionaire.

Elections turned into a show,
Where dollars decide which way they'll go,
The people’s voice is a fading sound,
As corporate greed stands on solid ground.

From boardrooms high to the Senate floor,
They’ve rigged the game and ask for more,
When money speaks, the truth grows thin,
In a world where the wealthy always win.

Money talks, but now it screams,
Drowning out the people's dreams,
Citizens United, the ruling came,
Now democracy's just a rigged game.
	

See also Requiem for Victims of U.S. Wars,
Windy City Protests -- from Vietnam in '68 to Gaza in '24,
No More Blood For Their Endless War: an antiwar folk song made with AI,
Machinery of Death (death metal song),
Love Song by the U.S. Military Gospel Choir.
and Endless War Blues.

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