Screw

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Inspired by Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine” and Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz‘ “Globalization and its Discontents”, this song is partly against the IMF and neoliberal agenda over the past few decades. While the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, the saying goes. Policies focused on stabilization, privatization, and liberalization (see Washington Consensus and neoliberalism) create few winners and many losers. Markets cannot regulate themselves (as history has proven over and over), wars fought to stabilize often end in disaster (ask the US), and liberty is a loaded concept with many strings attached.

While I don’t disagree with globalization, and I do prefer smaller government, I can’t stand people like Milton Friedman who blindly follow (or in his case, lead) an agenda that force people into poverty and destitution.

Right wingers, wake up. Cheap sneakers carry a price somewhere in the world. The butterfly effect is real.

Recording Information

Music & Lyrics: Grenga Ma
Copyright: © Grenga Ma. All rights reserved.
File Type: MPEG-1 Layer 3 audio (mp3), 160 kbps at 44.100 KHz
File Size: 3.8 MB
Song Length: 2:59


Lyrics

You got some money? I’ll share your wealth.
Force on you policy, I’ll make you melt.
The record shows it; stabilize that!
World hunger rising, and that’s a fact.
To you they’re short-term, a growing pain.
Die for the markets, its all a game.

International: a global village.
Monetary policy: a global pillage.
Fund for the US, and her allies,
And those who care less, for distant cries.
Washington knows it, and now you too.
Consensus bullshit. Financial screw.

Milton Friedman is your god.
Thanks to Chile, and the Russian mob.
You think you protest for a say?
In the end though, he’ll get his way!
His Chicago Boys will do you in,
Grave consequences will get you thin.

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5 Comments to Screw

  1. feter says:

    November 22nd, 2009 at 9:33 pm

    O Rockin dead heads ,the quality of your guitars
    and bass along with your vocal work hide the drum
    machine that need some extra work ..great lead bro !
    I love your rock n roll …kudos …keep em rollin !
    thnx alot for sharin !!!!

  2. Wesley Meyer says:

    November 22nd, 2009 at 9:36 pm

    Are your records going to be for sale Tod? Are most of your songs about politics and the world or do you also have songs about music and light and fluffy stuff? Great job. Looking forward to hearing more.

  3. Grengama says:

    November 24th, 2009 at 8:53 am

    Hi Wes! Actually, all but the most recent of my songs are about light and fluffy stuff. The songs I’ve grouped together for “Erased” are more dark, poignant, and relevant than anything I’ve ever done. In the past I’ve written about road trips, getting old, fictional characters, spinning around in circles, monkeys, etc. My main influences are the Grateful Dead, the Beatles, and Phish, so I think you can get an idea of where my head’s been.

    For Erased, I was generally feeling pissed off last December when Israel invaded Gaza. That started it for me. But now that these ideas are out and into music, I plan to write more about monkeys, spinning circles, and road trips :-p.

  4. Grengama says:

    November 24th, 2009 at 8:54 am

    Oh, and I have been thinking about making my songs available for free on iTunes, but still need to figure out how to make that happen. This is a hobby for me, so I’m not too commercially motivated…

  5. Viewpoint: Neither Orwellian nor Wild West Government will Cut It by Grenga Ma says:

    March 11th, 2010 at 10:20 pm

    [...] it makes me progressive, so be it. Independent? label away. On Erased, I wrote a song called “Screw“, which is related to this argument about the size and role of government. Smart regulation [...]

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