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Damn, man. Iâm broker than an old VCR, man. I need a job. Are they hiring at your
Job? I got a stack of red bills at my house. It looks like Valentineâs Day at the crib. My
Kids are eating left-over leftovers, man. I canât fool them no more. Itâs job time
Got to work every day
Got to work every day
My God thereâs got to be more to life than this
Thereâs got to be a bigger reason that I exist
Work to eat to earn my keep
To ensure somewhere to sleep and spend the weekend buying shit
Donât need economists to know I need pot to piss
Follow politics man I ainât got time to think
What I got to set aside for my retirement
Cop a double shift pay somebody to watch the kids
Sick of all this but canât take an off day
Doctorâs office I canât swing the co pay
Trapped in a network luck just to get work
They celebrate every week nobody gets hurt
Greed could never leave well enough alone
They keep on squeezing till we bleed from every bone
And weâll strive hard and stress about the rent
Probably still die poor and in debt without a cent but
I guess Iâll carry my ass down to the county and see what theyâre talking about. But
You know they treat you like you shot somebody just because you need a little help
Youâre telling my you ainât never been down on your luck
Never tried to make them ends meet but just got stuck
Never slaved at a gig like a bum with a cup
Added all your pennies up and you still ainât had enough
And the jobs full up they ainât hiring
Iâm barely surviving not enough to get by with
Hunger is a constant problem stomach steady growling
People getting shot in my environment
Study go to college is what them people hollering
Too many road blocks in the way its not an option
To say that its impossible I would be lying
But you ainât got a chance if youâre not up in that top ten
A couple got a scholarship but I am not them
Ainât got the skills to pay the bills so my pockets are thin
So until I cop a gig and my hardship ends
Fixing to line my self up at your welfare office again
And I expect to be accepted as the man that I am
Respectfully and appreciatively Maâam
God damn you must be out of your mind
Do you see this Tea Party stuff, man? Them people look broke their damn self. Are
People stressing hereâs the question
How they get people drinking tea in a recession
Itâs deception how absurd is this
How are so many poor people conservative
A pro artist I put it in the good music
A con artist jobâs to make you look stupid
Lookie here Iâll teach you how to look trough it
First thing you need to know every con got a hook to it
They seduce you with a little wealth
Say you could have some of these crumbs for yourself
If the government doesnât make us help anyone else
You stuck a red sign on your foreclosed house
Make you think youâre taking back your nation
Then they turn it over to a major corporation
Those companies took the jobs overseas
And you handed them the wallet out your pocket for free
Youâre staring in the sky with dollar signs for eyes
The blind right wing of a bird that canât fly
Just a peacock with a poked out gut
Whoâs too fat to fly so his ass just strut but
Theyâre so criminal minded weâve been blinded
Looking for an honest job and canât find it
They got a job bill we got a light bill
If we donât pay ours our life is quite real
- :
- All the Beauty in This Whole Life
- The Bite Marked Heart (EP)
- Mourning In America and Dreaming In Color
- Us
- The Undisputed Truth
- Shadows On The Sun
- Rites Of Passage
- The Truth Is Here
- Champion
- Miscellaneous
- Mourning In America And Dreaming In Color [Deluxe Version]
- Truth Is
- Nardwuar
- RSE20: 20 Years of Rhymesayers Entertainment
- Rhymesayers Entertainment Label Sampler
- Alternative Distribution Alliance: 2012 Independent Almanac
- Mourning In America
- Mourning In America - Single
- The Bite Marked Heart
- CMJ New Music Monthly, Volume 146: April 2007