Lyrics
Give it a home
Provide a dwelling place
But barely a home
Offering only a meager or minimal home
Keep food in a bowl
Ensure there's sustenance in a container
And don't let it
And prohibit it from wandering
Don't let it roam
Forbid it from freely moving around
Put it to work
Assign tasks and responsibilities
Make it stay poor
Force it to remain in poverty
By taking its pay
By confiscating its wages
At the company store
Through transactions at the employer-controlled store
Give it a home
Reiterate the notion of providing a dwelling place
But barely a home
Emphasize the inadequacy of the home
Keep food in a bowl
Repeat the concept of ensuring basic sustenance
And don't let it roam
Reiterate the prohibition of free movement
Put it to work
Redundantly stress the imposition of tasks
And make it stay poor
Again, highlight the enforced state of poverty
By taking its pay
Repeat the idea of seizing wages at the company store
At the company store
Reiterate the cycle of economic exploitation
Make sure it thinks
Ensure that it believes its friends are at fault
That its friends are to blame
And convince it that others are not living similarly
And everyone else's
Imply a sense of inequality in everyone else's lives
Lives aren't the same
Emphasize the perception of differing life conditions
And after it reads
Once it reads, make sure it only reads one specific book
It's one book to read
Limit its literary exposure to a single book
And after it sings
After singing, restrict it to singing a solitary song
It's one song to sing
Constrain its musical repertoire to one specific song
It will putter about
Engage in aimless activity throughout a specific period
Through this one day night
Wander through the hours of a single day and night
And no one will notice
Ensure that nobody takes notice of its disappearance
It has vanished from sight
Disappear from visibility without anyone realizing
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