Not for Sale - Dominic Balli

We are not for sale

We are not for sale

We are not for sale

We are not for sale

You can’t put a price on a human life

It’s not mine to sell it’s not yours to buy

All came from the dirt and we’ll return to earth

Who are we to decide another man’s worth

Created equal without social status

Without social systems of cast or classes

It’s even scales as far as I can tell

We didn’t make mankind it’s not ours to sell

How’s this for pathetic down right ironic

The land of the free

And the slave owners run it

Shipping drugs to the drug lords

Girls to the strip clubs

Boys to the fields and guns to the gang wars

It’s blasphemous

We write in God we trust

On a hundred dollar bill to fulfill a man’s lust

More slave’s today than transatlantic slave trade

Underground genocide sending youth to their grave

We are not for sale

We are not for sale

We are not for sale

We are not for sale

Do we even know the truth

‘Bout the clothes that we choose

Made by slaves and the food we consume

I’m right there with you I never knew

So here’s twenty two to name just a few

Coffee and cotton

Chocolate and diamonds

Gold rings rubies

Just like the movies

Sugarcane and charcoal

Paper and gravel

Cell phones pornography

Carpets and cattle

The rice in my fryer

The rubber on my tires

Tea and tobacco

Granite for my castle

Silk for my linen

Buttons for my denim

Sneakers for my feet

Worth more than human

Yep you heard right for the price of some Nikes

You could own a girl’s freedom sex slave for life

The worst part

You didn’t think twice

Still the fact remains

She ain’t your to buy

We are not for sale

We are not for sale

We are not for sale

We are not for sale