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David Rovics
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Welcome to the Working Class
The average annual income of the richest one percent is about seven hundred grand The average annual income of the poorest one percent is a couple Food Stamps and a pile of sand Smack-dab in the middle, 350 thousand, but that's actually the top four percent Most everybody else, say, in the bottom eighty, is struggling to pay their mortgage or their rent You who say you're in the middle, I wonder what you mean? In the middle of what and what? I'd say you're probably full of something that hopefully will soon be coming out of your butt I could join you in your fantasy, but I think I'll have to pass And just say welcome to the working class
If you're wondering how you might send your kids to college, if your savings is smaller than your debt If your main mode of transport is an auto or a pickup, not a helicopter or a private jet If you drive yourself to the supermarket, you know where to find the milk upon the shelf If you bring the groceries home and then you cook the food all by yourself If your idea of a night out is ordering a pizza and watching a DVD Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com If your idea of social mobility is the fact that you have broadband and a high-definition TV You can try to convince me that you're in the bourgeoisie or you could just stop smoking that grass Welcome to the working class
If half your income's spent on taxes, no second home on a tropic isle If flying in economy and renting a car is your notion of vacationing in style If you've never seen the world's Seven Wonders and you think you probably never will Because you only get two weeks holiday each year and you just don't have the time to kill If you think because you're employed and have a roof over your heads That you're so very privileged because your kids sleep in separate beds But you can't afford the rest home for your parents and it's you whose gotta wipe their asses Well then welcome to the working class
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