From History We'Ve Not Learned At All

They have all but rid the World of Communism and given us Capitalism instead And still millions are living in poverty and millions of children are crying to be fed And still we have war, terrorism and famines of those will we ever be free And the gap between the haves and the have nots only widening despite the spread of democracy. Long gone is the McCarthy era the one who broadcast fear of red The one who gave rise to the witchhunt of communists under the bed Yet we still have rank and class distinction for to appease the subservient kind And still the one eyed king is the ruler of us in the Land of the blind. And still for God and Country men are warring though the supposed war to end all wars long gone And still the intolerance of those different amongst the ruling classes live on And still we have got xenophobia that always lead to crimes of hate If we are all sisters and brothers how come everyone's not our mate. We now have the big corporations that only benefit the greedy few And that a booming economy too benefits the have nots is something that does not ring true For even in the World's wealthiest Nations you will find poverty in the extreme And those who talk of an egalatarian World are not realistic 'twould seem. They have all but rid the World of communism and capitalism is now to the fore Though poverty is now even more widespread and nothing has changed from days of yore And still we have wars, terrorism and famines and Empires they rise and they fall But the lessons of the past we have ignored and from history we've not learned at all.