Bankster Gangs

[en1841]

Another piece of communist crap

[sklanger]

Very good.

[keegiebear]

So, who is Juliet Capulet? An amateur? Does she have an album out? Where can we find out more about her? Website? And who is she really? The name is a Shakespearian nom-de-plume. Anyone?

[keegiebear]

Thanks very much for the lyrics!

[voyagedevie]

Lyrics Part 12: Bankster Gangs © Juliet Capulet March 11 2011

What kind of life is it when others suffer for your big advantage

Who are you anyway and how in hell do you ever even manage

To look into the mirror without ever asking why

Is it ok to look away from those who struggle to get by

[voyagedevie]

Lyrics Part 11: Bankster Gangs © Juliet Capulet March 11 2011

What do you say to people left out of the market revolution

When do you stop the taking start creating some kind of solution

What kind of fair is it when people at the way top of the ladder

Take a bigger slice of pie but watch the bottom just get sadder

[voyagedevie]

Lyrics Part 10: Bankster Gangs © Juliet Capulet March 11 2011

The government’s a puppet financiers pull all the strings

It’s why we now can’t even pay for just the standard basic things

Because the policies they push for only fatten up their take

You’re short on bread don’t even ask they’ll probably tell you to eat cake

It’s like they break it and we buy it then they tell us share the pain

But all it’s added up to is another Wall Street gain.

[voyagedevie]

Lyrics Part 9: Bankster Gangs © Juliet Capulet March 11 2011

They’ll try to tell you it’s productive allocation of capital

But look around and see it’s a game in which they grab it all

Instead of building schools and factories, high-speed trains and rockets

The money faucet flows into the Wall Street Wizards’ pockets

[voyagedevie]

Lyrics Part 8: Bankster Gangs © Juliet Capulet March 11 2011

So excited we forgot to take a look under the hood

Try to figure out if any of that junk was any good

Now quants and robots trading jillions faster than you even blink

Asset-backed securities exploding made a bit of a stink

Too big to fail we gotta bail

Em out in time for bonus season

Credit default swaps and CDOs

Equal a different kind of treason

[voyagedevie]

Lyrics Part 7: Bankster Gangs © Juliet Capulet March 11 2011

So what went down is that the Wall Street folk made up a whole new bunch

Of ways to take an ever bigger share of other people’s lunch

Some stuff was barely understood and yeah it brought a bit of trouble

Like when they started cooking up a bigfat dotcom bubble

The discount brokers and the frenzied speculation

Made casino gambling fools out of many in the nation

[voyagedevie]

Lyrics Part 6: Bankster Gangs © Juliet Capulet March 11 2011

You see the more they move the money round the less it goes to pay

To build a factory in our own backyard the Grand Old USA

And the crisis they created is opaque and tough to figure

But what you can be sure of is that Wall Street pulled the trigger

It wasn’t cops or firemen or the ones who teach the kids

That made the bets that broke the budgets put the country on the skids

[voyagedevie]

Lyrics Part 5: Bankster Gangs © Juliet Capulet March 11 2011

It started with deregulation and a boom in LBOs

Derivatives made bulls and bears the stars on finance TV shows

Securitization privatization and those hostile corporate raiders

In the eighties we made pagan gods of guys who really are just bond traders

Swaps and options get your junk bonds, try some shorts and puts and calls

Greed is good but in casinos it’s the house that wins it all

[voyagedevie]

Lyrics Part 4: Bankster Gangs © Juliet Capulet March 11 2011

It used to be that banking was for growth and building things

Now it’s mostly speculating and proprietary trading

Arbitrage and leverage and the forex carnival

Booms and busts and bubbles they make money on it all

Collecting handsome fees regardless if the country stands or falls

[voyagedevie]

Lyrics Part 3: Bankster Gangs © Juliet Capulet March 11 2011

Even only thirty years ago, it wasn’t quite this out of whack

Because the money that they made was more like pot but now it’s crack

Back then bankers they did their thing, they got paid well but not like kings

Then changes happened far and wide that opened up a great divide

Two sides, one is investor class, the other is the have-nots

Plus dudes in stripes who make the spreads that go to pay for fancy yachts

[voyagedevie]

Lyrics Part 2: Bankster Gangs © Juliet Capulet March 11 2011 You know it’s just beyond obscene And that’s the thing, it’s crazy high The amount that gets awarded To Mr. Hedge Fund Guy And to the others on the Street Who got the whole damn country beat With their fancy pants financial schemes They’ve pulled the plug on peoples’ dreams

[voyagedevie]

Lyrics Part 1: Bankster Gangs © Juliet Capulet March 11 2011 1. What does it mean when you get more than anybody’s wildest dream For moving other peoples’ milk around and skimming off the cream What does it say when day by day so many can’t afford to pay For basic needs but your portfolio’s way better than ok Why do you think the world won’t ever mind about your outsized gains When people left behind have one thing in abundance And it’s pain

[keegiebear]

Can somebody post the lyrics?

[sackit1967]

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[nwyt7]

This is terrific. On my FB page it goes!

[voyagedevie]

Thanks for the likes. I'm hoping to produce a more professional version some day.

[Bunglbeez]

Thank you!!!!!!  This is good stuff!!!!

[dayzeeLiu]

Great job on this. Thanks!