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By
Davi Harpine

Migrant workers,
farm labour camps
Low life existence,
singing the blues
Money makes you wise,
poor man, the fool
Doing the devil’s dance
Doing the white trash boogie.
 
Foster home, juvenile court,
reform school
Demeaning, brutal,
structured process
Democracy at its best
Doing the devil’s dance
Doing the puberty boogie
 
Menial labour, minimum wage
A father’s shame, a child’s future
Drone, prisoner of society
Doing the devil’s dance
Doing the wage slave boogie
 
Choice’s lost, dreams shattered
intelligent thought scattered
Perpetual prisoner of the state
Doing time, learning to hate
Doing the devil’s dance
Doing the convict boogie
 
Word of honor, blade of steel
Emotions submerged
forgot how to feel
Walls close in, mind won’t heal
Doing the devil’s dance
Doing a man’s boogie
 
Tattooed veins, lackluster gaze
Floating in a mindless maze
Overdose, death, a fix away
Doing the devil’s dance
Doing a junkie’s boogie
 
Oppressive, archaic,
machine government
Counter culture movement
revolution in the air
Anarchy springs from
a hidden lair
Doing the devil’s dance
Doing the anarchist’s boogie
 
Revolution, game called change
Played, middle against the high
Low supports the pyramid
Doing the devil’s dance
     Doing society’s boogie.