Blackmailed By Banks

The carrot of a free interest rate

Is what the banks use as their bait

And offers of mortgage schemes

Six times your salary

For the house of your dreams

Booking you into a future of debt

Hooking you inside

The negative equity net

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A monthly fix to feed

The banks’addiction to greed

And forever craving more

The interest rate forever soars !

Shooting and jacking up

You are now in their claws !

Their borrowing clause

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Enslaved in slave wage slavery

Anxiety and sleepless nights

Drain the life-force out of you

Or worse,

Robbed of your job because

Of the credit crunch curse

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There is nothing you can do

You cannot fight or take them on

For they are stubborn and too strong

And will NOT negotiate with you

They don’t have to -

- for they are never wrong !

Just read the small print,

Small and long

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And if you do not pay

And on the right day

They will penalize you

With a penalty pay

Or post blood red letters

Boasting threats and more

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While bullying bailiffs

Come a-banging on your door

To take your furniture, your bed

And the auction hammer

Bangs down

For the roof over your head

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