Day to day, impale their thoughts Take a stage, for their applause Lay down lies, piss on the truth New form of slavery, U.S.-backed cagery Modernisation, a new form of slavery Haiti's the world's poorest country In the western world Yank profit preaching The capitalistic word 1 percent of the people Take 70 percent of the land 9 in 10 illiterate No pedestal to take a stand Under a dollar a day Is the average pay Half the children die Before the age of five Nicaragua, you must survive It's a prey the eagle fears When talons lash out Who will hear the people's screams? Since the U.S.A. ratified the putsch Thousands of Haitians died in a daily exodus Strikes against the law, a U.S. state of mind Their only convern is power Not hope for the human kind