Spreading the Disease (Part II)

[...continued] Religion and sex are powerplays Manipulate the people for the money they pay Selling skin, selling God The numbers look the same on their credit cards Politicians say no to drugs While we pay for wars in South America Fighting fire with empty words While the banks get fat And the poor stay poor And the rich get rich And the cops get paid To look away As the one percent rules America Spreading the disease Everybody needs But no one wants to see The way society Keeps spreading the disease