I’ve got a sustainability report and a corporate photograph,
I pay a PR firm to make the pillaging look like care—
The corporate greed has always known how to dress for the affair.
I am the signature at the bottom of the thing that costs you most,
The friendly face of everything from the boardroom to the coast,
I’ll lay off three divisions and I’ll call it streamlining for growth—
The corporate greed is always going to get away with both.
I moved the plant across the ocean where the labor runs thin,
Then donated to the scholarship and called it discipline,
I purchased the regulator through a five-step holding shell—
The corporate greed is everywhere and doing very well.
You want to boycott me but I own the alternative brand,
You want to vote me out but I own the entire hand,
I’m in your 401k and I’m in the pension fund—
The corporate greed is the economy of everything undone.
So rage against the system and write letters to the press,
The corporate greed finds every protest charming, more or less,
I’ll buy the movement when it builds enough momentum and traction—
The corporate greed is always one acquisition from satisfaction.