Iris DeMent ~ Wasteland of the Free ~ Baz

Iris DeMent ~ Wasteland of the Free ~ Living in the wasteland of the free We got preachers dealing in politics and diamond mines And their speech is growing increasingly unkind They say they are Christ’s disciples But they don’t look like Jesus to me And it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free We got politicians running races on corporate cash Now don’t tell me they don’t turn around and kiss them peoples’ ass You may call me old-fashioned But that don’t fit my picture of a true democracy And it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free We got CEOs making two hundred times the workers’ pay But they’ll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage And If you don’t like it, mister, they’ll ship your job To some third-world countries across the sea And it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free Living in the wasteland of the free Where the poor have now bec