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Version 1 of Asian Dub Foundation Lyrics Colour Line (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/a/asian-dub-foundation/colour-line/...) Version 1 of the lyrics | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Today, the color line is the power line, is the poverty line | Today, the Colour LineIs the Power LineIs the Poverty Line | 1 | ||||||||||
| Racism and imperialism work in tandem | Racism and imperialism work in tandem | ||||||||||||
| 2 | And poverty is their handmaid | And poverty is their handmaiden | 2 | ||||||||||
| Those who are poor and powerless to break out of their poverty | Those who are poor and powerless to break out of their poverty | ||||||||||||
| Are also those who by and large are non-white, non-western, third world | Are also those who by and large are non-white, non-western, third world | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Poverty and powerlessness are intertwined in color, in race | Poverty and powerlessness are interwined in colour, in race | 3 | ||||||||||
| Discrimination and exploitation feed into each other today | Discrimination and exploitation feed into each other today | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Under global capitalism | Under global capitalism... | 4 | ||||||||||
| 5 | We are back to primitive accumulation, plunder on a world scale | We are back to primitive accumulation - plunder on a world scale | 5 | ||||||||||
| 6 | Only this time, the pillage is accompanied by aid | Only this time, the pillage is accompanied by aid, sustained by expert | 6 | ||||||||||
| 7 | Sustained by expert advice and underpinned by programmes | advice and underpinned by programmes and | 7 | ||||||||||
| 8 | And policies that perpetuate dependency | policies that perpetuate dependency | 8 | ||||||||||
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| 9 | The IMF, the world bank, structural adjustment programmes | The IMF, The World Bank, Structural Adjustment Programmes | 9 | ||||||||||
| 10 | General agreement on tariffs and trade, gatt | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade - GATT, | 10 | ||||||||||
| 11 | Are just a few of the organizations, schemes, projects | are just a few of the organisations, schemes, projects | 11 | ||||||||||
| 12 | Which under the guise of developing the third world, plunder it | which under the guise of developing the third world, plunder it. | 12 | ||||||||||
| 13 | Trade agreements and commodity price-fixing | Trade agreements and commodity price-fixing, patents and | 13 | ||||||||||
| 14 | Patents and intellectual property rights | intellectual property rights | 14 | ||||||||||
| They lock them into paralytic dependency | They lock them into paralytic dependency | ||||||||||||
| 15 | There is no such thing as illegal immigrants | There's no such thing as illegal immigrants, only illegal | 15 | ||||||||||
| 16 | Only illegal governments | governments... | 16 | ||||||||||
| 17 | Black is not just the color of our skins | Black is not just the colour of our skins | 17 | ||||||||||
| 18 | It's this color of our politics | It's the colour of our politics... | 18 | ||||||||||
| 19 | There is no such thing as illegal immigrants | There's no such thing as illegal immigrants, only illegal | 19 | ||||||||||
| 20 | Only illegal governments | governments... | 20 | ||||||||||
| 21 | Today, the color line is the power line, is the poverty line | Today, the colour lineis the power lineis the poverty line | 21 | ||||||||||
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