When I was still just a little kid
I said “fuck all this rich man bullshit
Don’t want to be grow up just like my folks
Drinking at the club telling racist jokes
I want to be one of the salt of the earth
I want to be a man of zero worth
Don’t want it easy don’t want to have it made
I want to be alone desperate and afraid”
I’m a hard living daddy I’m a bum lookin buck
I’m a no money honey I’m Mr. Down on his Luck
I look like a robber cause I got nervous hands
I look like a rapist cause I can’t afford new pants
I want to do with less I always want to want some more
I want to hide when the bill collector comes to my door
I want to be poor. Seems like everything costs so much more
Feels good to be pure
It’s great down at the welfare place
The people there spit right in my face
But I know they like me fine
If it wasn’t for me they’d be in the same line
Anyone can put on a suit and wear it
It’s harder to tighten your belt and grin and bear it
Squeezing the little man till he bleeds
Is old school cool catch the new disease
We’re broke folks with a second hand vision
We’re powerless and in submission
We got nothing to lose we can’t make the evening news
Our futures are pawned our dreams are shattered
Nothing that we do even matters
It’s a glorious life if you can hack it
The bottom forgotten in the lowest tax bracket
I want to do with less I always want to want some more
I want to hide when the bill collector comes to my door
I want to be poor. Seems like everything costs so much more
Feels good to be pure
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