Lyrics Jedi Mind Tricks

Jedi Mind Tricks

Shadow Business

"When you were over in American Samoa, what surprised you the most?"

"I guess what hit me the most was the condition of the factory that the workers were in

the factory was surrounded by a fence and barbed wire on top, and on the bottom

and they have a chain linked fence around the whole factory, and military compound

the gate has a guard shack where the guard sit there and ... the worker movement

in and out of the factory, the factory made of tin panels, tin roof, it's really hot

the temperature over there is regularly ninety degrees, and inside the factory

it reach way over a hundred degrees"

Yeah, it's a contemporary form of slavery, they call it slave labor

But they don't prosecute them 'cause it's how they make paper

When you rockin' that fly shit that's made in China

By an eight year old child tryin' to feed him mama

He exposed to contamination and disease

And only fifty-five percent of them will get degrees

And the women have to try to placate the boss

Because of sex discrimination in the labor force

The slave master only let them speak in sign language

And they sufferin' from lung disease and eye damage

Fourteen hour shifts, seven days a week

Two shitty meals a day, very little sleep

Human life only worth three cents an hour

All human rights lost, no sense of power

Workin' for a hundred years in the grave passes

Only the improved cleverness of slave masters

Is life worth livin' if you livin' in Hell?

When the mind is confined to a prisoner cell?

And the lies they devise and the system, it fail

But I expect the system to fail

Is life worth livin' if you livin' in Hell?

When the mind is confined to a prisoner cell?

And the lies they devise and the system, it fail

But I expect the system to fail

"Many Chinese workers are forced to sign secret agreements

known as "Shadow contracts" before they leave China

severely, and in some ways, illegally restricting their activities while on

American soil

workers are forbidden to participate in any religious or political

activities

or to ask for a salary increase, or even to fall in love or get married"

It's 1.6 million people locked in jail

They the new slave labor force, trapped in Hell

They generate over a billion dollars worth of power

And only gettin' paid twenty cents an hour

They make clothes for McDonald's and for Applebee's

And workin' forty-hour shifts in prison factories

And while we sit around debatin' who the wack MC's

They have to work when arthritic pain attack the knees

Slavery's not illegal, that's a fuckin' lie

It's illegal, unless it's for conviction of a crime

The main objective is to get you in your fuckin' prime

And keep the prison full and not give you a fuckin' dime

But they the real criminal, keepin' you confined

For a petty crime, but they give you two-to-nine

And ain't nobody there to protect ya

Except a bunch of incompetent human rights inspectors

Is life worth livin' if you livin' in Hell?

When the mind is confined to a prisoner cell?

And the lies they devise and the system, it fail

But I expect the system to fail

Is life worth livin' if you livin' in Hell?

When the mind is confined to a prisoner cell?

And the lies they devise and the system, it fail

But I expect the system to fail

"The sweatshop situation kind of conveys it and kind of take advantage of

the people that are poor and at an economic disadvantage"

"This Chinese woman made t-shirts and pants at the factory

until she became pregnant ... says she refused to have the abortion

and has now been barred from entering the factory"

"Allowing them to bring that onto US soil is a very big concern

we've now documented the fact that management coerces female workers

who become pregnant into having abortions"

"Human rights workers say it's common practice"

"Inside that factory, Chinese law applies, and Chinese law is supreme"

"Even though it's the United States of America?"

"The flag doesn't fly inside there"