making promises you can t keep hungry wolves dressed like sheep they shake our hands slap our backs i don t know why they do us like that now what i m saying is things ain t right these conditions ain t no good for life who s decision is it anyway yours or mine pushing poison to our children still promoting class division we are starving but you grow fat i don t know why they do us like that now what i m saying is things ain t right these conditions ain t no good for life who s decision is it anyway yours or mine one day we re gonna open up and do what we got to do yeah but the revolution will not be televised and we put the script on you this free country is not so free ain t no hope for you and me from the power hungry money fiends putting the world behind the scene now what i m saying is things ain t right these conditions ain t no good for life who s decision is it anyway yours or mine