Story Behind the Song
The top one percent own 98% of the world's wealth. "Compassionate Conservatism" forces families off of welfare and into minimum wage slavery with no safety net, while the rich keep amassing more wealth than they will ever need. But this is the greatest country on earth, right ? Not if you ask Helen and her children in Mississippi...
Lyrics
Left to be a caretaker, you're just a child yourself
moms low paying job and welfare don't help, try to move up, yall aren't far from the streets
tattered shoes on your young feet
No time to be a child you got too much to do, like cook dinner for your siblings or change diapers filled with poop
left in poverty in a country so rich, no chance of moving up, your little life is a wreck
Wrecked, Wrecked Wrecked by capitalism, denied by this old nation, neglected because the system failed you,
i am sorry for you child
i am sorry for you child
i am sorry for you child
left to be a caretaker, you're just a child yourself, moms low paying job and welfare don't help, try to move up yall aren't far from the street, tattered shoes on your young feet.
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