PUTTING ON THE SQUEEZE
© Andy Bassett/Trish Kane (APRA)
 
From the way that you're talking
I believe that you're walking away
And I see no evidence
To support anything you say
Your theories take a lot of proving
I can tell when you're lying
Cos your lips are moving
You're lowering the taxes
To be sure that the user pays
What the right hand gives
The left hand takes away
Don't talk to me about the state of the nation
What we've got here's just an abdication
By a bunch of rich bastards
Putting on the squeeze
 
I remember when hospitals
Used to take care of our health
Now you've got shareholders
Only concerned with their wealth
Well the money that you save
By laying off nurses
You can put into a fleet
Of brand new hearses
For the victims of the latest
Economic disease
A bunch of rich bastards
Putting on the squeeze
 
Well we keep on hearing
'bout the spirit of recovery
You can quote your statistics
But they're all just ballistics to me
It's all very well for the rich to get richer
But everybody else is out of the picture
Every time the country
Starts to get back up on its knees
There's always some rich bastard
Putting on the squeeze
There's always some rich bastard
Putting on the squeeze
 
End Chorus:
Rich bastards - putting on the squeeze
Rich bastards - putting on the squeeze
Rich bastards - putting on the squeeze
Rich bastards - putting on the squeeze
Rich bastards
 
18 July 1996