Capitalism Gone Mad - Mighty Sparrow

You got to be a millionaire

Or some kind of petit-bourgeoisie

Any time you living here

In this country

You got to be in skullduggery

Making your money illicitly

To live like somebody

In this country

It’s outrageous and insane

Them crazy prices in Port of Spain

And like the merchants going out dey brain

And the working man, like he only toiling in vain

Where you ever hear, a television for seven thousand

Quarter million for lil piece of land

A pair of sneakers, two hundred dollars

Eighty, ninety thousand for motor cars

At last here in Trinidad

We see capitalism gone mad

It’s sad and getting more bad

Because, doudou, capitalism gone mad!

To provide for your family

Today on your present salary

Is an impossibility

In this country

So many bills to pay

There is no conceivable way

To save for a rainy day

In this country

Avariciousness to be precise

Is why every damn thing so overpriced

Big business making everybody feel

Government give them an open license to steal

Would you believe me, one nylon panty is nineteen ninety

Twenty dollars for some baby milk

The cheapest jersey cost over sixty

Two hundred and change a yard for silk

It hard here in Trinidad

Lord have mercy, capitalism gone mad

It’s sad, things getting more bad

Oh Lord, capitalism gone mad!

To buy a pack of cigarette

Does leave you with a hole in your wallet

And money is so hard to get

In this country

Necessity or luxuries

It doesn’t matter what the item is

They charging anything they please

In this country

Primary school books prices lewd

Is highway robbery, the price of food

All hopes and dreams elude the poor man

But politicians still expect good work attitude

Just imagine this, the cheapest coffin over three thousand

Not even dying today easy

Thousands of dollars for the undertakers

So you could get a spot in the cemetery

It hard here in Trinidad

Oh lord, capitalism gone mad

The gladness that once we had

Is gone because capitalism gone mad!

You got to have heavy contact

Know how to move up in society

To make any kind of impact

In this country

You got to know how to gyp the field

How to scheme and swindle properly

Perfect the art of wheel and deal

In this country

I say, survival in this land

Isn’t easy for no man

With unemployment and high inflation

Some of we go dead before the end of this recession

Wey de hell is dis, a Mango Julie costing three fifty

Forty dollars for one watermelon

Half your salary for fish, meat, and poultry

Time you buy greens all your money done

It hard here in Trinidad

Lord, have mercy, capitalism gone mad

It sad and getting more hard

Put a hand, lord, capitalism gone mad!