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If a ticket round the world
Cost a quarter,
I couldn't get across
My hometown border.
Had me a woman, but I
Couldn't afford her;
These times are leaner and
Meaner than me.
These times are leaner and
Meaner than me.
Work-place drama, daily commute,
Time and a half, American dream.
Time bomb trauma, life won't compute.
You used to laugh, now you just scream.
Another day, another dollar,
Minimum wage and blue collar.
What can I say, my life's a bust.
I used to rage; now I just rust.
If a ticket round the world
Cost a quarter,
I couldn't get across
My hometown border.
Had me a woman, but I
Couldn't afford her;
These times are leaner and
Meaner than me.
These times are leaner and
Meaner than me.
Down on the farm, it's no better;
You plant your hours, wait for the buds.
You mean no harm, still a debtor.
It used to shower; now it just floods.
Another day, another dollar,
Minimum wage and blue collar.
What can I say, my life's a bust.
I used to rage; now I just rust.
If a ticket round the world
Cost a quarter,
I couldn't get across
My hometown border.
Had me a woman, but I
Couldn't afford her;
These times are leaner and
Meaner than me.
These times are leaner and
Meaner than me.
- Album:
- This Is Who I Am
- This Is Who I Am Volume Two
- This Cup
- Last Tomorrow
- Twenty From Ten
- Two from Seven
- This Is Who I Am, Vol. 3
- Asking for Forever
- No Place Like Home
- Say Something In Poetry
- State of the Union
- Playing the Ghost
- Take a Good Look
- Who Is Your Paul? (Songs from the Prison of Addiction)
- One from Every Album