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to come, here comes the fight
A massacre is sure to come
It's hard to strike for a better life
When you're looking down the barrel of a gun

Robber Barons

night
While their plight's always in his sight

Robber Baron, in the tower
Counting all his gold
You know while he goes unchecked
And stays in power
He's

you could have some more

You won't have earned your millions
Your new mantle: Robber Baron
Your fiscal needs long since removed
But you continue

Cartel of robber barons
Captains of industry

Patronize
While you terrorize
Red lined scars
Bled them dry

Gentrify
As you commodify
Another sweep

Death to My Hometown

Bruce Springsteen

Wrecking Ball

2012

returning sure as the rising sun
Now get yourself a song to sing and sing it ’til you’re done
Yeah, sing it hard and sing it well
Send the robber barons

Orpheus in the Underworld

Rick Springfield

The Snake King

2018

freak flag unfurled
Drinkin' wine with
Orpheus in the Underworld

The modern robber barons
Still reign from their snake pit
While you elect another

In our post-democracy
Techno, robber, baron age
From birth to bacon toilets to tilt-a-whirl
Enjoy the plague it could be your last

Sabotage is sex

Just to tell the stories that a real nigga left
Call Em Bobby Mcfarrin don't worry be happy fuck the dem Robbers and Barons

Aye I just came to do my

I'm Keeping

The Pretty Things

Savage Eye

1975

Well your daddy was a robber baron,
And he robbed so much it hurts,
Now he's lying in some alley,
And his mouth is filled with dirt.

Your mother

I forgot this isn't speech to text
The lesson's sharp
They wanna kill whoever wanna free the secret prisoners
I brought a robber baron's daughter

all and the robber barons wanna profit off the fact
That artists do or die for the dream most times with a knife in they back 
I Rap they stare

Openly scoffs at the scholars who rock suspender and barrel 
While you're splitting a bean, tugging a boot on a fishing line 
Robber baron apostles will

week
Sink or swim, we can only tread
Robber barons so generous
Give us now our daily bread
Who thought that the brightest light would catch us unprepared

death-defying flaming swords
And robber barons robbing other lords

Witness as they siphon all away
The needs of countless others along the way

The peasantry can

have proof, Life's even
Harder, Baring the truth
Of the ruthless
Laws revealed, As useless
Operating, As robber, Baron
Protection, Schemes, Illusive

Let's revolt against that corporate thunderbolt
Let's expropriate the resources that the robber barons own
The anarchists they have receded the empire has

have proof, Life's even
Harder, Baring the truth
Of the ruthless
Laws revealed, As useless
Operating, As robber, Baron
Protection, Schemes, Illusive

sells the plan
Dressed up like a diplomat
While robber barons sneak out the back door

Get out of my country
Get out of town
Get off the cloud you're

that's all that's gonna matter

They told you robber barons when you were a kid
That the feds fought 'em toe to toe and came out ahead
But truth is, feds

Caught in the great divide
That's called humankind
Robber barons bleed you dry
You just sit around and smile

Let them eat cake she said
Like Marie

me
Hydroelectric
System of power
Man made lakes
Cover up sepulchers of our
Cultural achievements
Appropriated by Robber Barons
Nathan made it greater

There's no context to the madness
I smoke the mic chord
And sip metaphors through a chalice
I've had it up to here with you naysayers
And robber barons
Rob

my hand and let the thinker cry?
Don't know what I lack, don't know why I stride
Like the slums beneath the robber-baron not let testify
I've put my

god-fearin'
'Til these goddamned engineers started racketeerin'
Robber barons kind of like the Sheriff of Nottingham
Tariffing the man in the goddamned Amazon