We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years
Blood Price of Wealth: Workers' Unyielding Struggle
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We have fed you all for a thousand years
We, the workers, have provided sustenance for society for a millennium.
And you hail us still unfed
You still acknowledge us with hunger and unmet needs.
Though there's never a dollar
Despite all your wealth, there's not a single dollar that hasn't cost a worker's life.
Of all your wealth
Wealth generated at the expense of workers' lives.
But marks the worker's dead
Each unit of wealth signifies a worker's death.
We have yielded our best for to give you rest
We've sacrificed our best to provide you comfort.
And you lie on a crimson wool
You enjoy luxury while lying on the suffering of others.
If blood be the price of all your wealth
If the cost of your wealth is blood, we've paid it in full.
Good God, we have paid in full
An acknowledgment of the immense sacrifice made by workers.
There's never a mine blown skyward now
No mine explosion occurs without workers being buried alive for you.
But we're buried alive for you
Every disaster at sea involves workers who are part of its tragic crew.
There's never a wreck drifts shoreward now
But wе are it's ghastly crew
Workers are sacrificed in industrial accidents and disasters.
Go and reckon our dеad by the forges red
Count our dead in the red glow of forges and factories.
And the factories where we spin
The curse of your wealth is paid with the blood of workers.
If blood be the price of your cursed wealth
Good God, we have paid it in
If blood is the price for your cursed wealth, we've fully paid it.
We have fed you all for a thousand years
We've sustained you for a millennium, and that has been our fate.
For that was our doom, you know
You've chained us in servitude, from historical oppression to recent strikes.
From the days when you chained
Us in your fields to the strike a week ago!
Reference to the historical exploitation of workers in fields to recent labor strikes.
You have taken our lives and
Your actions have taken our lives, spouses, and called it your lawful entitlement.
Our husbands and wives
And called it your legal share
If the cost of your wealth is blood, we've acquired it rightfully.
If blood be the price of all your wealth
Good God, we have bought it fair
The fair acquisition of wealth through the legitimate price of blood.
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