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A very wise man once said: There’s nothing new under the sun If it happened before, it’s gonna happen again If a J.I. sold out their best buddy, they’re gonna sell out your best friend That’s just how it is, and that’s how it’s always been It's the un-Just way people do Iscariot biz, shop closed is always a tragic end Every diverse token that once culturally fit in, when the times change, they get tossed to the wind And every corporate top in need of a new profit spin, picks up that discarded token and slogan use it again If a Balaam bum sold out their old buddy, they’re gonna sell out your new friend That’s just how the world is, and that’s how it’s always been Every flattering word spoken so buttery at a private power luncheon setting, can turn into a public bed-wetting when the bladder mouth soils the sheets Another Marx Peabody silken tongue rank thinning, tough pillow talk changing of the propaganda Lenin If you’ve heard that ol’ manifesto song before ... put on your patriotic shoes, because you’re gonna be marching once more If a Jezebel busybody sold out her gossiping pal gals, they are gonna sell out your grapevine group as well That’s just way the story goes, the same way as it began A repo tale retold, always have the same end Creditors on a plastic card hustle boost, says that mortgage bill is unpaid Ghetto dwellers perched on a low roost, J. Crow ‘bout getting slave wage 400-years of cotton free sweat labor: Plantation-to-factory years of getting tossed crumbs off the table 400-years of never getting nothing — nothing but bottom-of-the-boot ridicule Heaven knows we deserve something: Because that reparation train from Washington is 400-years long overdue That’s just the way Uncle Tom’s cabin door always shut close, but it’s gonna swing open in the gospel end That’s the way this repo tale is gonna be a-revision retold — Darkies on a sunny move to a brighter send
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