2 Verses. Instrumental is from Starz Entertainment. Not for profit recording. Low end version (if i get in the studio there will be a high end version).
The working poor.
Chorus
I'm writing with tears in my eyes
Seeking clarity under the seams
To be make to 25 without a felony
Is a dream
I'm writing with tears in my eyes
Seeking clarity under the seams
To be make to 25 without a felony
Is a dream
Verse 1
We're stuck in the illusion
That classism doesn't attribute to us losing
Battling hypocrisy daily
Not seeing public school programs excelling
Moving so salient
Because we have to pay the rent
Diapers, bottles, formula and groceries
We have to be at our best
Like 5 star generals putting cadets to test
So
I'm out on the battlefield
Needing more than minimum wage to pay the bills
I'm doing this for my kids
As a man I have duties to fill
As a man responsibility is real
Like HUD housing downtrodden daffodils
As a man responsibility is real
Like HUD housing downtrodden daffodils
Verse 2
Industrial jobs are no longer here
They no longer value
Working with your hands
My ed opportunities ran out of grants so
(Ironically still) I 1st started working at a plant
But happens if you don't water your plants?
They whither and erode like the Grand Canyon
My raise was literally worth two cents
Giving me dreams of riding the bus instead of a Bent(ley)
They gassed us up talking about job training
But the ABC's of windows is not what we were thinking.
Unsafe conditions and the lack of supervisors
We wanted to trade up (a promotion) to change our conditions
But I guess moving up was just the Jeffersons
Because at the Christmas Parties they're treating us like one of them
Cheers - not knowing I have to work the night shift at Sears
Where I steal tools out of their tool shed
I'm building up like the Aviator
Because there has to be a place that's even greater
I'm real weary because I was the last one hired
Real dreary because I'll be the first one fired
Chorus
I'm writing with tears in my eyes
Seeking clarity under the seams
To be make to 25 without a felony
Is a dream
I'm writing with tears in my eyes
Seeking clarity under the seams
To be make to 25 without a felony
Is a dream